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.
CLAUDE MONETIt is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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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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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It’s true that fretting never did any good.
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Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it’s enchanting, it’s delicious, and I hope it will please you.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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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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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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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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Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
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I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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