Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
CLAUDE MONETOne day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
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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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The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all’s said and done, a matter of habit.
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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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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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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.
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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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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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