One can do something if one can see and understand it.
CLAUDE MONETI’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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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’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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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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Pictures aren’t made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red…But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.
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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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It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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When I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.
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Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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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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