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Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.

Claude Monet

The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
CLAUDE MONET

Live Myself Regret
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Absence Better Deal Determination Hard Work Myself Paint
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
CLAUDE MONET

Artist Composition Head Oneself Painting Photograph
I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.
CLAUDE MONET

Appreciation Goodness Happiness Myself Praise Time
It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
CLAUDE MONET

Action Better Myself Reputation
For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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Alive Important Myself Subject
For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
CLAUDE MONET

Appearance Change Existence Moments Myself Right
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Achievement Devotion Myself Paint Possible Satisfaction Time
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Direct Effect Impression Nature Paint
No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.
CLAUDE MONET

Anxiety Myself Painting Satisfaction Trouble
I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
CLAUDE MONET

Encouragement Hard Work Myself Period Strength
I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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Artist Bird Myself Paint Sing Way
Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
CLAUDE MONET

Greatness Myself Thankful
I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
CLAUDE MONET

Build Earth Happiness Kind Myself Thinking
Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
CLAUDE MONET

Color Myself Pursue Sleep Worry
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Appearance Beautiful Mysterious Place Regular

Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.

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