I’ve been working so hard that I’m exhausted… I feel I won’t be able to do without a few weeks’ rest, so I’m going off to see the sea.
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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I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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I can only draw what I see.
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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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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I 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.
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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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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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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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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.
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I’ve only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.
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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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If only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
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