Getting 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.
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 perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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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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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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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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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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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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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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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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Lots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
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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’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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