I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
CLAUDE MONETI work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
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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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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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I’ve done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don’t want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that’s enough.
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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I’ve been working so hard that I’m exhausted… I feel I won’t be able to do without a few weeks’ rest, so I’m going off to see the sea.
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For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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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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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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