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.
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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I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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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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I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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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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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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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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I’m in a foul mood as I’m making stupid mistakes… This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away… what a rage I was in!
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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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