The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
CLAUDE MONETMy only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
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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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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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it’s enchanting, it’s delicious, and I hope it will please you.
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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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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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One’s better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one’s own. In fact it’s a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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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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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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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 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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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’ve done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don’t want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that’s enough.
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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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I’ve been working so hard that I’m exhausted… I feel I won’t be able to do without a few weeks’ rest, so I’m going off to see the sea.
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
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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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