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.
CLAUDE MONETDespite 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.
CLAUDE MONETOne can do something if one can see and understand it.
CLAUDE MONETI’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
CLAUDE MONETI never draw except with brush and paint.
CLAUDE MONETIf the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
CLAUDE MONETFor me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
CLAUDE MONETI didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
CLAUDE MONETI’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
CLAUDE MONETWhen 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.
CLAUDE MONETI would like to paint the way a bird sings.
CLAUDE MONETMy life has been nothing but a failure.
CLAUDE MONETThe effect of sincerity is to give one’s work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.
CLAUDE MONETI am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
CLAUDE MONETNo one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.
CLAUDE MONETMy eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
CLAUDE MONETI don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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