Finally here is a beautiful day, a superb sun like at Giverny. So I worked without stopping, for the tide at this moment is just as I need it for several motifs. This has bucked me up a bit. Claude Monet Read Quote
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. Claude Monet Read Quote
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. Claude Monet Read Quote
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. Claude Monet Read Quote
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. Claude Monet Read Quote
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. Claude Monet Read Quote
There, the grand lines of mountain and sea are admirable, and apart from the exotic vegetation that is here, Monte Carlo is certainly the most beautiful spot of the entire coast: the motifs there are more complete, more picturelike, and consequently easier to execute. Claude Monet Read Quote
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. Claude Monet Read Quote
I have never had a studio, and I do not understand shutting oneself up in a room. To draw, yes; to paint, no. Claude Monet Read Quote
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. Claude Monet Read Quote
