Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Claude Monet
Age: 86 †
Born: 1840
Born: November 14
Died: 1926
Died: December 5
Graphic Artist
Painter
Paris
France
Monet
Klod Mone
Claude-Oscar Monet
Cl. Monet
Oscar Claude Monet
monet claude
claude oscar monet
monet c.
Claude Jean Monet
Claude Oscar Monet
C. Monet
Oscar-Claude Monet
Ends
Exhausted
Work
Evening
Thinking
Slave
Responsibility
Morning
Getting
Forget
Forgetting
Away
Responsibilities
More quotes by Claude Monet
For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
Claude Monet
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.
Claude Monet
The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
Claude Monet
It's the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one's done.
Claude Monet
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.
Claude Monet
I can only draw what I see.
Claude Monet
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
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
I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
Claude Monet
I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
Claude Monet
The real subject of every painting is light.
Claude Monet
I want the unobtainable. Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat, and that's the end. They are finished. I want to paint the air which surrounds the bridge, the house, the boat, the beauty of the air in which these objects are located, and that is nothing short of impossible.
Claude Monet
If only the weather would improve, there'd be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
Claude Monet
No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.
Claude Monet
I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
Claude Monet
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
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.
Claude Monet
For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
Claude Monet
Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
Claude Monet
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.
Claude Monet
