French - Artist | November 14, 1840 - December 5, 1926
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Claude Monet
NatureI AmFlowersBecomeWithout
I am installed in a fairylike place. I do not know where to poke my head; everything is superb, and I would like to do everything, so I use up and squander lots of color, for there are trials to be made.
I AmColorPlaceKnowTrialsHead
My life has been nothing but a failure.
LifeFailureMy LifeNothingBeen
I have never had a studio, and I do not understand shutting oneself up in a room. To draw, yes; to paint, no.
UnderstandNeverYesUpRoomPaint
I wear myself out and struggle with the sun. And what a sun here! It would be necessary to paint here with gold and gemstones. It is wonderful.
MyselfStruggleSunGoldOutPaint
Among the seascapes, I am doing the regattas of Le Havre with many figures on the beach and the outer harbor covered with small sails.
BeachI AmSmallDoingSailsHarbor
I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.
AloneBetterMy OwnAlwaysOwn
I was definitely born under an evil star. I have just been thrown out of the inn where I was staying, naked as a worm.
EvilBornNakedOutStarWhere
For a long time, I have hoped for better days, but alas, today it is necessary for me to lose all hope. My poor wife suffers more and more. I do not think it is possible to be any weaker.
TodayHopeTimeWifeMeBetter
I do have a dream, a painting, the baths of La Grenouillere for which I've done a few bad rough sketches, but it is a dream. Renoir, who has just spent two months here, also wants to do this painting.
PaintingBadDreamDoneTwoHere
Etretat is becoming more and more amazing. Now is the real moment: the beach with all its fine boats; it is superb, and I am enraged not to be more skillful in rendering all this. I would need two hands and hundreds of canvases.
MomentBeachI AmAmazingHandsNow
I am working, but when one has ceased to do seascape, it is the devil afterward - very difficult; it changes at every instant, and here the weather varies several times in the same day.
DayI AmWeatherDevilDifficult
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