My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
CLAUDE MONETMy garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
CLAUDE MONETI let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
CLAUDE MONETMy work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
CLAUDE MONETI work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
CLAUDE MONETThe real subject of every painting is light.
CLAUDE MONETColor is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
CLAUDE MONETThe richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
CLAUDE MONETI’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.
CLAUDE MONETEverything changes, even stone.
CLAUDE MONETI didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
CLAUDE MONETPictures 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.
CLAUDE MONETIt’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
CLAUDE MONETWithout 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.
CLAUDE MONETMy life has been nothing but a failure.
CLAUDE MONETI’m working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still.
CLAUDE MONETI still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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