Claude Monet Quotes
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I haven't many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.
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I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found - the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.
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I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
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Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.
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One's better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one's own. In fact it's a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
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As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.
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I'm working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still.
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It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
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What could be said about me...a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as well.
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I've spent so long on some paintings that I no longer know what to think of them, and I am definitely getting harder to please; nothing satisfies me.
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I'm going to get down to a still life on a size 50 canvas of rayfish and dogfish with old fishermen's baskets. Then I'm going to turn out a few pictures to send wherever possible, given that now, first and foremost - unfortunately - I have to earn some money.
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Thanks to my work everything's going well; it's a great consolation.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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I'm not lacking for enthusiasm as you can see, given that I have something like 65 canvases covered with paint and I'll be needing more since the place is quite out of the ordinary; so I'm going to order some more canvases.
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I can no longer work outside because of the intensity of the light.
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.
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I know well enough in advance that you'll find my paintings perfect. I know that if they are exhibited they'll be a great success, but I couldn't be more indifferent to it since I know they are bad, I'm certain of it.
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The Thames was all gold. God it was beautiful, so fine that I began working a frenzy, following the sun and its reflections on the water.
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You might perhaps like to see the few canvases I was able to save from the bailiffs and the rest, since I thought you might be so good as to help me a little, as I am in quite a desperate state, and the worst is that I can no longer even work.
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I have once more taken up things that can't be done: water with grasses weaving on the bottom. But I'm always tackling that sort of thing!
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When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can't think any more.
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No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.
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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I'm exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I've set out to do.
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Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
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My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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