I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
CLAUDE MONETWhen I work I forget all the rest.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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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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Everything changes, even stone.
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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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.
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I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It’s true that fretting never did any good.
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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’ve only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.
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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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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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Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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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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