I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.
CLAUDE MONETColor is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I’m knocked out, I’ve never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I’m quite stupid with it and long only for bed; but I am happy.
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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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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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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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Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
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For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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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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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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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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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’ve been working so hard that I’m exhausted… I feel I won’t be able to do without a few weeks’ rest, so I’m going off to see the sea.
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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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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.
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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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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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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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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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I can only draw what I see.
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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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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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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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Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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