„I won’t be here long, I am working as hard as I can, as I told you [in a letter] yesterday, I am very happy to be here Etretat, Normandy] and I hope to come up with something good, in any case I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.“

— Claude Monet

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„After the crisis which I went through coming down here I can make no plans nor anything, I am decidedly better now, but hope, the desire to succeed is gone, and I work because I must, so as not to suffer too much mentally, so as to distract my mind.“
— Vincent Van Gogh
„I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.“
— Frida Kahlo
„I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.“
— John Lennon