I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
CLAUDE MONETI’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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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’ve only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.
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Perhaps it’s true that I’m very hard on myself, but that’s better than exhibiting mediocre work… too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.
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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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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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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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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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When I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
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It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
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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’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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I can only draw what I see.
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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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When I work I forget all the rest.
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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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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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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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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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