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.
CLAUDE MONETWhen 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.
CLAUDE MONETI sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It’s true that fretting never did any good.
CLAUDE MONETI am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
CLAUDE MONETListening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
CLAUDE MONETMy eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
CLAUDE MONETWhen I work I forget all the rest.
CLAUDE MONETNever, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
CLAUDE MONETI will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
CLAUDE MONETAll I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
CLAUDE MONETI say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
CLAUDE MONETWhile adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.
CLAUDE MONETThe only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.
CLAUDE MONETI am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
CLAUDE MONETWhen it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
CLAUDE MONETI perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
CLAUDE MONETZaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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