My life has been nothing but a failure.
CLAUDE MONETI’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
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I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
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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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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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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.
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.
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My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.
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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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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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