I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
CLAUDE MONETIt’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I’m knocked out, I’ve never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I’m quite stupid with it and long only for bed; but I am happy.
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My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
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I’ve been working so hard that I’m exhausted… I feel I won’t be able to do without a few weeks’ rest, so I’m going off to see the sea.
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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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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 would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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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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My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.
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I’m in a foul mood as I’m making stupid mistakes… This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away… what a rage I was in!
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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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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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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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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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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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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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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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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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I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
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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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Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It’s wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.
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