I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
CLAUDE MONETLight is the most important person in the picture.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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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 am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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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’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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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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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.
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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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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 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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I’ve said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.
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