Lots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
CLAUDE MONETI am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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When I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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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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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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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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When I work I forget all the rest.
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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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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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I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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