It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.
CLAUDE MONET
When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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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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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 would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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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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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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As 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.
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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 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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Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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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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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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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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