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.
CLAUDE MONETI’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!
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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I’ve said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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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.
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If only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
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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’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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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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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.
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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 effect of sincerity is to give one’s work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.
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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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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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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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Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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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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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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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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