I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
CLAUDE MONETGetting 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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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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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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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The real subject of every painting is light.
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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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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 am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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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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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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Everything changes, even stone.
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Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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