Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
CLAUDE MONETEvery day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
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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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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I can only draw what I see.
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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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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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I’m exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I’ve set out to do.
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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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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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