It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
CLAUDE MONET
I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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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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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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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 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.
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I’ve been working so hard that I’m exhausted… I feel I won’t be able to do without a few weeks’ rest, so I’m going off to see the sea.
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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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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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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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 had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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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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Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.
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All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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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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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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