My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
CLAUDE MONETMy garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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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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Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It’s wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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I’m enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.
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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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One day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.
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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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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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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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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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