I’m enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.
CLAUDE MONETI’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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
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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 very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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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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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.
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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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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 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 want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found – the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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