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.
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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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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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I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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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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I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.
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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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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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When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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