I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
CLAUDE MONETIt is better to have done something than to have been someone.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Everything changes, even stone.
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I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
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My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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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.
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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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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 will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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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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I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found – the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.
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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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The real subject of every painting is light.
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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