If only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
CLAUDE MONETIf only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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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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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 is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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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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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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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all’s said and done, a matter of habit.
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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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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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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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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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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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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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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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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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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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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When I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.
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