No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.
CLAUDE MONETAll I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Everything changes, even stone.
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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.
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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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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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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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I’ve said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.
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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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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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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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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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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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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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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.
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I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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