Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
CLAUDE MONETThe more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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Everything changes, even stone.
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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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I never draw except with brush and 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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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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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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I’m enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.
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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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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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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 very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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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 can only draw what I see.
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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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The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.
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One day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.
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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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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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