I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
Interpretation
Monet expresses his struggles and dissatisfaction with painting, highlighting the emotional turmoil it brings him.
In this quote, Claude Monet reveals the intense personal conflict he experiences as an artist. Despite his fame and success, he feels overwhelmed by a sense of despair and frustration regarding his craft, suggesting that the artistic process can be both a source of joy and a painful struggle. This duality captures the essence of the artist's journey, where creativity often coexists with internal challenges and dissatisfaction.
In practice
In a discussion about the challenges of artistic expression, one might say, 'As Claude Monet described, I understand how one can feel deeply disgusted with their own work.'
When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, house, a field....Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives your own naive impression of the scene before you.
Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
The effect of sincerity is to give one's work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.
The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face.
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive.
Pixar films are not realistic. They are believable for the worlds we are creating.
So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America.
The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying.
Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend. What all great gardens have in common are their ability to pull the sensitive viewer out of him or herself and into the garden, so completely that the separate self-sense disappears entirely, and at least for a brief moment one is ushered into a nondual and timeless awareness. A great garden, in other words, is mystical no matter what its actual content.
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