Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
CLAUDE MONETI am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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If only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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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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The real subject of every painting is light.
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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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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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No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
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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 work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
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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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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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