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I'm very happy, very delighted. I'm setting to like a fighting cockerel, for I'm surrounded here by all that I love.
Claude Monet
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Claude Monet
Age: 86 †
Born: 1840
Born: November 14
Died: 1926
Died: December 5
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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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It is difficult to stop in time because one gets carried away. But I have that strength it is the only strength I have.
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For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
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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?
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It's enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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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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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face.
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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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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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For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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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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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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I see less and less... I need to avoid lateral light, which darkens my colors. Nevertheless, I always paint at the times of day most propitious for me, as long as my paint tubes and brushes are not mixed up... I will paint almost blind, as Beethoven composed completely deaf.
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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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What could be said about me...a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as well.
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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It was at home I learned the little I know. Schools always appeared to me like a prison, and never could I make up my mind to stay there, not even for four hours a day, when the sunshine was inviting, the sea smooth, and when it was joy to run about the cliffs in the free air, or to paddle in the water.
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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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