Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
CLAUDE MONETI waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
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Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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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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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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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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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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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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Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it’s enchanting, it’s delicious, and I hope it will please you.
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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I’m in a foul mood as I’m making stupid mistakes… This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away… what a rage I was in!
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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