I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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The 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.
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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Perhaps 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.
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Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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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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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
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