I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
CLAUDE MONETWhat I need most of all is color, always, always.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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I’ve said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.
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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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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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I can only draw what I see.
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I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
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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.
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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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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One’s better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one’s own. In fact it’s a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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