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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.

Claude Monet

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.
CLAUDE MONET

Criticism Myself Period Success Word
No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.
CLAUDE MONET

Anxiety Myself Painting Satisfaction Trouble
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Absence Better Deal Determination Hard Work Myself Paint
Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it’s enchanting, it’s delicious, and I hope it will please you.
CLAUDE MONET

Bold Delicious Enchanting Feeling Hope Nature Yourself
Lots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
CLAUDE MONET

Bad Mindset Myself People Reality
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
CLAUDE MONET

Art Discussion Love Myself Pretend Understand
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Devil Live Myself Room Sleep Time
I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
CLAUDE MONET

Encouragement Hard Work Myself Period Strength
All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
CLAUDE MONET

Brush Myself See Sight Universe
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Myself Paint Try Water Wonderful
I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
CLAUDE MONET

Education Home Myself Work
Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
CLAUDE MONET

Enough Life Myself Paint Time
Pictures aren’t made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red…But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.
CLAUDE MONET

Appearance Chocolate Doctrine Official Photograph
Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
CLAUDE MONET

Flower Interest Myself Paint World
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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Joy Obsession Torment
When I work I forget all the rest.
CLAUDE MONET

Forget Myself Paint Understand Work

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