My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
CLAUDE MONETI’ve said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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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 said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.
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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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I’m knocked out, I’ve never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I’m quite stupid with it and long only for bed; but I am happy.
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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
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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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While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.
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I’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.
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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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