What I need most of all is color, always, always.
CLAUDE MONETI’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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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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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 had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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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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I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It’s true that fretting never did any good.
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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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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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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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Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It’s wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.
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