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 MONET
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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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.
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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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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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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I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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I haven’t many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.
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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
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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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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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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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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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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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