The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
CLAUDE MONETIt’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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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I haven’t many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Perhaps it’s true that I’m very hard on myself, but that’s better than exhibiting mediocre work… too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.
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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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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 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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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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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 had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
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