It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
CLAUDE MONETIt’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
CLAUDE MONETIt took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.
CLAUDE MONETIt’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
CLAUDE MONETLots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
CLAUDE MONETI do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.
CLAUDE MONETNo 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.
CLAUDE MONETEverything changes, even stone.
CLAUDE MONETAll I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
CLAUDE MONETThe more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
CLAUDE MONETAll of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
CLAUDE MONETThanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
CLAUDE MONETI’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
CLAUDE MONETMost people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
CLAUDE MONETI don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
CLAUDE MONETI’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
CLAUDE MONETThese landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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