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.
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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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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 am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
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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 fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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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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One day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.
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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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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.
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If only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
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I’ve done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don’t want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that’s enough.
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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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