I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
CLAUDE MONETI’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!
More Claude Monet Quotes
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The effect of sincerity is to give one’s work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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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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When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
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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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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 would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
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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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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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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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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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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 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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