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Claude Monet

I'm not lacking for enthusias...

I'm not lacking for enthusiasm as you can see, given that I have something like 65 canvases covered with paint and I'll be needing more since the place is quite out of the ordinary; so I'm going to order some more canvases.

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Claude Monet

By the single example of this...

By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to me.

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Claude Monet

What is it that's taken hold ...

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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Claude Monet

Now, more than ever, I realiz...

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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Claude Monet

What can be said about a man ...

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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Claude Monet

It goes without saying that I...

It goes without saying that I will do anything at any price to pull myself out of a situation like this [rejection] so that I can start work immediately on my next Salon picture and ensure that such a thing should not happen again.

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Claude Monet

I'm going to get down to a st...

I'm going to get down to a still life on a size 50 canvas of rayfish and dogfish with old fishermen's baskets. Then I'm going to turn out a few pictures to send wherever possible, given that now, first and foremost - unfortunately - I have to earn some money.

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Claude Monet

I'm quite content: although w...

I'm quite content: although what I'm doing is far from being as I should like, I am complemented often enough all the same.

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Claude Monet

I intend to do a large painti...

I intend to do a large painting of the cliff at Etretat, although it is terribly bold of me to do so after Courbet has painted it so admirably, but I will try to do it in a different way.

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Claude Monet

To have gone to all this trou...

To have gone to all this trouble to get to this is just too stupid! Outside there's brilliant sunshine but I don't feel up to looking at it.

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Claude Monet

One day I am satisfied, the n...

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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Claude Monet

Canvases between 8 centimetre...

Canvases between 8 centimetres and 1 metre are priced around 25,000 francs. In the past I used to sell them from between 50 to 100 francs at the most. I have to say... that I feel somewhat embarrassed at this admission.

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Claude Monet

My rejection at the Salon bro...

My rejection at the Salon brought an end to my hesitation [to settle in Paris] since after this failure I can no longer claim to cope... alas, that fatal rejection has virtually taken the bread out of my mouth.

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Claude Monet

You might perhaps like to see...

You might perhaps like to see the few canvases I was able to save from the bailiffs and the rest, since I thought you might be so good as to help me a little, as I am in quite a desperate state, and the worst is that I can no longer even work.

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Claude Monet

Work is nearly always a tortu...

Work is nearly always a torture. If I could find something else I would be much happier, because I could use this other interest as a form of relaxation. Now I cannot relax.

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Claude Monet

What could be said about me.....

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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Claude Monet

I've spent so long on some pa...

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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Claude Monet

I've been working so hard tha...

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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Claude Monet

I'm very happy, very delighte...

I'm very happy, very delighted. I'm setting to like a fighting cockerel, for I'm surrounded here by all that I love.

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Claude Monet

It is difficult to stop in ti...

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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