My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
CLAUDE MONETIt’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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I’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.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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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.
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I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.
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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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