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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.
Claude Monet
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Claude Monet
Age: 86 †
Born: 1840
Born: November 14
Died: 1926
Died: December 5
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Paris
France
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When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can't think any more.
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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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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.
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I do have a dream, a tableau of the bathing place of La Grenouillère, for which I've done some bad pochades (sketches), but it is a dream. Renoir, who have just spent a couple of months here, also wants to paint this subject.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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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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I've been working so hard that I'm exhausted... I feel I won't be able to do without a few weeks' rest, so I'm going off to see the sea.
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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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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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I'm knocked out, I've never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I'm quite stupid with it and long only for bed but I am happy.
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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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Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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