Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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 work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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If only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
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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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One’s better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one’s own. In fact it’s a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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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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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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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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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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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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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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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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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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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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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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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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Lots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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I’m knocked out, I’ve never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I’m quite stupid with it and long only for bed; but I am happy.
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