Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
CLAUDE MONETI’m enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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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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Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
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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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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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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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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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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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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 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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Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it’s enchanting, it’s delicious, and I hope it will please you.
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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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