When I work I forget all the rest.
CLAUDE MONETAs 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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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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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Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.
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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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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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It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
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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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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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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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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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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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It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
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