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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.
Claude Monet
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Claude Monet
Age: 86 †
Born: 1840
Born: November 14
Died: 1926
Died: December 5
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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 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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I'm getting so slow at my work it makes me despair, but... I'm increasingly obsessed by the need to render what I experience, and I'm praying that I'll have a few more good years left to me.
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One is too taken up with all that one sees and hears in Paris, however strong one is, and what I do here [in Etretat] will at least have the merit of being unlike anyone else, at least I believe so, because it will simply be the expression of what I, and only I, have felt.
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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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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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My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
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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.
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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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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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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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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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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.
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I'm enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.
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