I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
CLAUDE MONETNever, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.
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For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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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 am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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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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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
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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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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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