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.
CLAUDE MONETI let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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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’m working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still.
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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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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.
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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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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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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 am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to 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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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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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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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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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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I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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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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Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.
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Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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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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