Claude Monet Quotes
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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Apart from painting and gardening, I'm not good at anything.
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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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What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can only interest himself in one thing. But I can't do any thing else. I have only one interest.
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I have once more taken up things that can't be done: water with grasses weaving on the bottom. But I'm always tackling that sort of thing!
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You'll understand, I'm sure that I'm chasing the merest sliver of color. It's my own fault. I want to grasp the intangible. It's terrible how the light runs out. Color, any color, lasts a second, sometimes 3 or 4 minutes at most.
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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It seems to me that when I see nature I see it ready-made, completely written - but then, try to do it!
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No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.
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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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The sea is superb, but the cliffs don't match up to those at Fecamp. Here I'll be certain to do more boats.
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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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To have gone to all this trouble to get to this is just too stupid! Outside there's brilliant sunshine but I don't feel up to looking at it.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
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I have made tremendous efforts to work in a darker register and express the sinister and tragic quality of the place, given my natural tendency to work in light and pale tones.
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My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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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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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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I would love to do orange and lemon trees silhouetted against the blue sea, but I cannot find them the way I want them.
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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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One day Boudin said to me, 'Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.' I took his advice.
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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.