Claude Monet Short Quotes

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For almost two months now I've been struggling away with no result.

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I can no longer work outside because of the intensity of the light.

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I didn't become one... As long as I can remember I've always been one.

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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.

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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.

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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.

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Ninety per cent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in... Ruskin's Elements.

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Zaandam is particularly remarkable and there is enough here to paint for a life-time.

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Once settled, I hope to produce masterpieces, because I like the countryside very much.

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It's quite beyond my powers at my age, and yet I want to succeed in expressing what I feel.

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.. but what a pity that I did not come here [Venice] when I was younger and more adventurous.

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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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I have not been able to see a bit of sea or any water at all; everything is frozen and covered with snow.

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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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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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One day I am satisfied, the next day I find it all bad; still I hope that some day I will find some of them good.

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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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I'm half an hour late, I'll come back tomorrow. [because the sun went that day too far already, in Monet's opinion]

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Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of blue and pink: it's enchanting, it's delicious.

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By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to me.

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I am working as hard as I possibly can, and do not even dream of doing anything except the cathedral. It is an immense task.

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The Thames was all gold. God it was beautiful, so fine that I began working a frenzy, following the sun and its reflections on the water.

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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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As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.

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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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I climb up, go down again, then climb up once more; between all my studies, as a relaxation I explore every footpath, always curious to see something new.

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Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.

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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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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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By way of news, I can tell you that Couture, that bad-tempered fellow, has completely given up painting. It's no great pity; in this exhibition, he had some really bad paintings.

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