I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
CLAUDE MONETThe 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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It’s wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.
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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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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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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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My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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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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For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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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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The real subject of every painting is light.
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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