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.
CLAUDE MONETIf only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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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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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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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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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.
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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 would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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I’ve said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.
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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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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 waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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Lots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
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I’ve done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don’t want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that’s enough.
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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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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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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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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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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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