I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found – the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.
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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When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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I can only draw what I see.
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I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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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 would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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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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I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It’s true that fretting never did any good.
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