My life has been nothing but a failure.
CLAUDE MONETI sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It’s true that fretting never did any good.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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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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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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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
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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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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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I’ve done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don’t want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that’s enough.
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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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While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.
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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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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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The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.
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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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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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I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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I can only draw what I see.
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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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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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It’s true that fretting never did any good.
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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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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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