I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
CLAUDE MONETThe light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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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 had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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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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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.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It’s true that fretting never did any good.
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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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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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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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