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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
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Claude Monet
Age: 86 †
Born: 1840
Born: November 14
Died: 1926
Died: December 5
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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My aim is to give you only the things with which I am completely satisfied, even if it means asking you a little more [time] for them... for if I were to do otherwise I'd turn into a mere painting machine and you would be landed with a pile of incomplete work which would put off the most enthusiastic of art collectors.
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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It's the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one's done.
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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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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 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.
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I know that to paint the sea really well, you need to look at it every hour of every day in the same place so that you can understand its way in that particular spot and that is why I am working on the same motifs over and over again, four or six times even.
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It's true that fretting never did any good.
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Techniques vary, art stays the same it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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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 will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
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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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No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.
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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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I've spent so long on some paintings that I no longer know what to think of them, and I am definitely getting harder to please nothing satisfies me.
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I get madder and madder on giving back what I feel.
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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