I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
CLAUDE MONET
I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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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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It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
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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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The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.
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I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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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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It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
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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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When I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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I can only draw what I see.
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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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I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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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.
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