I must have flowers, always, and always.
CLAUDE MONETI must have flowers, always, and always.
CLAUDE MONETLots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
CLAUDE MONETI don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
CLAUDE MONETI despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
CLAUDE MONETNever, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
CLAUDE MONETImpressionism 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.
CLAUDE MONETI 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.
CLAUDE MONETColors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
CLAUDE MONETI perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
CLAUDE MONETAll of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
CLAUDE MONETThese landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
CLAUDE MONETTake 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 MONETIt is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
CLAUDE MONETDespite 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 MONETI’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 MONETMost people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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