Perhaps it’s true that I’m very hard on myself, but that’s better than exhibiting mediocre work… too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.
CLAUDE MONETI will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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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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It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
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I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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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 haven’t many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.
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