Claude Monet

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Dear God, this cursed Cathedral is hard to do… Fourteen paintings on the go today… I'm exhausted and it seems that every day the light changes: it gets whiter and higher up.

I found my eyes fixed on the tragic countenance, mechanically trying to seek the sequence, the degradation of the colours that death had just imposed on the motionless face. Shades of blue, yellow, grey, and I don't know what… My automatic instinct was first to tremble at the shock of the colour.

My passion has been to stay in contact with nature, and to be concerned with nothing but the truth.

I want the inexpressible. I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house, the boat are situated, the beauty of the air in which they are.

I am working very hard, struggling with a series of different effects, but the sun goes down so fast that I cannot follow it.

The fog is so thick, it's like a dream. I am working, but it is like working in a dream.

I am tied to this garden and I will paint in it for the rest of my life.

I am going to send you some more canvases, but I don't know what to do with them. They are all different and I don't know which one to choose.

I'm not good at anything except painting and gardening.

I have painted so many water lilies and I am still not satisfied. I want to paint them perfectly.

I often think I am very stupid, but when I look at what others are doing, I think I am a genius.

I have such a fear of not being able to finish what I have undertaken.

I'm working like a madman, but I'm not making progress.

I am a man who can only paint, and I have never been able to do anything else.

I am completely absorbed in my work, and I am not thinking of anything else.

I am in despair. I am working like a madman, but I am not making any progress.

I want to paint the light, and I want to paint the air.

I'm still fighting with the light, and I'm still not satisfied.

I am very much upset. I am working very hard, but I am not satisfied with anything.