Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
CLAUDE MONETThanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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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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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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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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I haven’t many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.
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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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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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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’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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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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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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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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