"Comment peut-on vivre à Paris ? C'est l'enfer. Je préfère
mes fleurs et cette colline qui entoure la Seine à tous vos bruits
et lumières nocturnes."
Claude Monet |
"How can one live in Paris ? It's hell. I prefer my flowers and this
hill that surrounds the Seine to all your noises and nocturnal lights. "
Claude Monet |
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" I have no other wish than to mingle more closely with nature,
and I aspire to no other destiny than to work and live in harmony with her
laws, as Goethe prescribed. Nature is greatness, power, and immortality ;
compared with her a creature is nothing but a miserable atom."
Claude Monet |
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"Lorsque j'ai commencé, j'étais comme les autres; je pensais
que deux toiles suffisaient, une pour temps sombre et une autre pour le plein
soleil."
Claude Monet |
"When I began I was like the others ; I thought that two canvases
were enough, one by dark weather and another one by sunshine.".
Claude Monet |
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"Je voudrais empêcher qu'on ne voie comment c'est fait."
Claude Monet |
"I would like to prevent anybody from seeing how it is made."
Claude Monet |
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"Ca été une drôle d'histoire ! J'ai dû acheter les peupliers pour achever de les peindre. (...) La commune de Limetz les avait mis en adjudication. (...) Je n'avais plus que la ressource de me présenter aux enchères, perspective sans agrément, car je me disais : "on va te faire payer cher ta fantaisie, mon bonhomme!"
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"It has been a funny business ! I had to buy the poplars to finish painting them." Claude Monet |
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Alors j'eus l'idée de m'adresser à un marchand de bois qui
désirait la coupe. Claude Monet
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"On s'interesse beaucoup à New-York à vos tableaux, je
crois que celà gagne chez les gens de goût."
Théodore Robinson |
"In New-York they are very much interested in your paintings,
I think it spreads among people of taste."
Theodore Robinson to Claude Monet |
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