When I work I forget all the rest.
CLAUDE MONETI perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Lots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
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I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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I haven’t many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.
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Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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I’m knocked out, I’ve never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I’m quite stupid with it and long only for bed; but I am happy.
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The real subject of every painting is light.
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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I’m exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I’ve set out to do.
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No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
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