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I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.

Claude Monet

It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
CLAUDE MONET

Ambience Atmosphere Crazy Drive Enough
My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
CLAUDE MONET

Desire Fate Herself Intimacy Law Live Nature
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Despair God Mistake Myself Sensation
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 MONET

Absence Better Deal Determination Hard Work Myself Paint
I’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.
CLAUDE MONET

Country Enjoyment Forever Freedom Peace Perfection Tranquility Worry
Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
CLAUDE MONET

Flower Interest Myself Paint World
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
CLAUDE MONET

Artist Composition Head Oneself Painting Photograph
One can do something if one can see and understand it.
CLAUDE MONET

Myself See Sight Understand
If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
CLAUDE MONET

Appearance Myself Painting World
Light is the most important person in the picture.
CLAUDE MONET

Important Light Person Photograph
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Art Deal Depression Interest Love Market Modesty Myself Price Value
When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
CLAUDE MONET

Darkness Death Myself Thinking
Pictures aren’t made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red…But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.
CLAUDE MONET

Appearance Chocolate Doctrine Official Photograph
The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
CLAUDE MONET

Live Myself Regret
I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
CLAUDE MONET

Finish Myself Terrible
For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
CLAUDE MONET

Alive Important Myself Subject

I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.

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