I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
CLAUDE MONETWhen it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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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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Everything changes, even stone.
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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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Lots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
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