Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
CLAUDE MONETAs 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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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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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My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
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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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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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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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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.
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Lots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
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I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.
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Despite 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.
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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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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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For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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