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.
CLAUDE MONETThe light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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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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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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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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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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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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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.
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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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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 working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still.
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I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found – the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.
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I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
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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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When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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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’m enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.
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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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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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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 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 still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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