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.
CLAUDE MONETThanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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Pictures aren’t made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red…But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It’s wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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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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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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Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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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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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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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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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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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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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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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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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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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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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.
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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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