If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
CLAUDE MONETIf the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
CLAUDE MONETI must have flowers, always, and always.
CLAUDE MONETI still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
CLAUDE MONETMy heart is forever in Giverny.
CLAUDE MONETThe only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.
CLAUDE MONETFor me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
CLAUDE MONETI 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.
CLAUDE MONETThe more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
CLAUDE MONETI’ve only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.
CLAUDE MONETMost people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
CLAUDE MONETPerhaps it’s true that I’m very hard on myself, but that’s better than exhibiting mediocre work… too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.
CLAUDE MONETI say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
CLAUDE MONETThe richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
CLAUDE MONETEveryone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
CLAUDE MONETGetting 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.
CLAUDE MONETI would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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