The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
CLAUDE MONETPictures aren’t made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red…But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I’ve been working so hard that I’m exhausted… I feel I won’t be able to do without a few weeks’ rest, so I’m going off to see the sea.
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Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.
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One’s better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one’s own. In fact it’s a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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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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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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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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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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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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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’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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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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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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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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