I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
CLAUDE MONETGetting 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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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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’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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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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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 work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
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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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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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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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