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 MONETNow 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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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I’ve said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.
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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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Everything changes, even stone.
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Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
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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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It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
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I can only draw what I see.
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Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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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 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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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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