A good impression is lost so quickly.
CLAUDE MONET
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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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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 don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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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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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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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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I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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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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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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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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Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
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I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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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’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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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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