"My rejection at the Salon brought an end……" — Claude Monet
"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."
—
Claude Monet
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
148 Quotes by Claude Monet
Claude Monet has 148 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and…
-
What could be said about me...a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his…
-
I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart…
-
The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
-
My garden is a slow work, pursued with love and I do not deny that I am proud of it.…
-
Pictures aren't made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have…
-
Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to…
-
What I need most of all is color, always, always.
-
Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
-
When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, house, a…
-
Lots of people will protest that it's quite unreal and that I'm out of my mind, but that's just too…
-
I've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don't want to…
See all 148 quotes by Claude Monet »
More Alas Quotes
This quote is filed under Alas Quotes,
one of 349 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.
— Karen Armstrong
-
Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they…
— Aeschylus
-
This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at…
— James L. Buckley
-
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
— Albert Camus
-
And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
-
Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
— Miguel de Cervantes
-
Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.
— George Carlin
-
Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer!
— Louis Untermeyer
-
Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I,…
— George Arnold
-
Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still, Should without eyes see pathways to his will!
— William Shakespeare
-
In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my…
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
-
If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose…
— Tom Robbins
See all 349 Alas Quotes »