A good impression is lost so quickly.
CLAUDE MONET
The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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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’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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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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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 only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.
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Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I’m exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I’ve set out to do.
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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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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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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I can only draw what I see.
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The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all’s said and done, a matter of habit.
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