I am working as hard as I possibly can, and do not even dream of doing — Claude Monet

"Im half an hour late, Ill come back tomorrow."

"Ninety percent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in.. ..Ruskins Elements."

"..tell me whether she [Pissarros wife] did not find Monets things a little too dark? [Monets paintings at the Paris exhibition, at M. Petit, May 1887]. I do not know whether I am correct in this, but these works seem to me to lack luminosity, by which I mean the light that bathes bodies in the shade as well as those in the sun. The effect is certainly decorative, but there is little finesse and crudities are prominent; I do not know if it belongs to our vision which aspires to harmony and demands an art which while not decoration is yet decorative."

"I am surrounded by a small group of young s who will be very happy get to know you. Besides, they are real painters... I find myself very well fixed here. I am drawing figures at hard. And at the Academy, there are only landscapists. They begin to perceive that its a good thing."

"By way of news, I can tell you that Couture, that bad-tempered fellow, has completely given up painting. Its no great pity; in this exhibition, he had some really bad paintings."

"is particularly remarkable and there is enough here to paint for a life-time."