If only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
CLAUDE MONETDespite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
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The real subject of every painting is light.
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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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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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I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.
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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 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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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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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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