Claude Monet Quotes - Page 6

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• What is it that's taken hold of me, for me to carry on like this in relentless pursuit of something beyond my powers?

  Claude Monet

  Taken, Relentless, Relentless Pursuit

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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

  Claude Monet

  Struggle, Two, Months

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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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.

  Claude Monet

  Next Day, One Day, Goodness

  Claude Monet, Centre culturel du Marais (1983). “Claude Monet at the Time of Giverny”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• Thanks to my work everything's going well; it's a great consolation.

  Claude Monet

  Gratitude, Thanks, Consolation

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• Think of me getting up before 6, I'm at work by 7 and I continue until 6.30 in the evening, standing up all the time, nine canvases. It's murderous.

  Claude Monet

  Thinking, Nine, Evening

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• 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 Monet

  Believe, Weather, Impossible

  Claude Monet (1999). “Monet by himself: paintings, drawings, pastels, letters”

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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.

  Claude Monet

  Flower, Garden, Unhappy

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• It is difficult to stop in time because one gets carried away. But I have that strength; it is the only strength I have.

  Claude Monet

  Finishing, Difficult, Carried Away

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• These landscapes of water and reflections have become an obsession. It's quite beyond my powers at my age, and yet I want to succeed in expressing what I feel.

  Claude Monet

  Reflection, Water, Age

  Claude Monet (2005). “Monet”, Rizzoli International Publications

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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.

  Claude Monet

  Appreciate, Painting, Pleasure

  Claude Monet (2005). “Monet”, Rizzoli International Publications

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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.

  Claude Monet

  Art, Destiny, Independence

  Claude Monet (1982). “Claude Monet”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• Canvases between 8 centimetres and 1 metre are priced around 25,000 francs. In the past I used to sell them from between 50 to 100 francs at the most. I have to say... that I feel somewhat embarrassed at this admission.

  Claude Monet

  Past, Selling, Used

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• Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I'm exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I've set out to do.

  Claude Monet

  Morning, Responsibility, Thinking

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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.

  Claude Monet

  Depression, Stupid, Sunshine

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• I think only of my painting, and if I were to drop it, I think I'd go crazy.

  Claude Monet

  Crazy, Thinking, Painting

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• What could be said about me...a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as well.

  Claude Monet

  Flower, Men, Garden

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

  Claude Monet

  Light, Work Out, Intensity

  Letter to Gustave Geffroy. As quoted in "Monet in the 20th Century" by Paul Hayes Tucker, Summer of 1920.

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• I intend to do a large painting of the cliff at Etretat, although it is terribly bold of me to do so after Courbet has painted it so admirably, but I will try to do it in a different way.

  Claude Monet

  Trying, Different, Way

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• It would be asking too much to want to sell only to connoisseurs - that way starvation lies.

  Claude Monet

  Lying, Would Be, Asking

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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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.

  Claude Monet

  Light, Effort, Quality

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• I know well enough in advance that you'll find my paintings perfect. I know that if they are exhibited they'll be a great success, but I couldn't be more indifferent to it since I know they are bad, I'm certain of it.

  Claude Monet

  Perfect, Painting, Enough

  Claude Monet (1999). “Monet by himself: paintings, drawings, pastels, letters”

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• You might perhaps like to see the few canvases I was able to save from the bailiffs and the rest, since I thought you might be so good as to help me a little, as I am in quite a desperate state, and the worst is that I can no longer even work.

  Claude Monet

  Littles, Might, Able

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• Work is nearly always a torture. If I could find something else I would be much happier, because I could use this other interest as a form of relaxation. Now I cannot relax.

  Claude Monet

  Relaxation, Suffering, Would Be

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• Now, more than ever, I realize just how illusory my undeserved success has been. I still hold out some hope of doing better, but age and unhappiness have sapped my strength.

  Claude Monet

  Success, Age, Realizing

  Claude Monet (1999). “Monet by himself: paintings, drawings, pastels, letters”

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• I'm going to get down to a still life on a size 50 canvas of rayfish and dogfish with old fishermen's baskets. Then I'm going to turn out a few pictures to send wherever possible, given that now, first and foremost - unfortunately - I have to earn some money.

  Claude Monet

  Money, Firsts, Size

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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