When I work I forget all the rest.
CLAUDE MONETI’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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.
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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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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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all’s said and done, a matter of habit.
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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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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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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 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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The effect of sincerity is to give one’s work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.
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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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