Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
CLAUDE MONET
It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
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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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My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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If only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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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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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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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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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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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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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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When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
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