Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I’m exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I’ve set out to do.
CLAUDE MONETFor me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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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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Pictures aren’t made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red…But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.
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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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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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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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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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One day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.
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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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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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I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
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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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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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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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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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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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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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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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For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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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 can only draw what I see.
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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