black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.

Claude Monet

To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
CLAUDE MONET

Forget Name Philosophy See Sight
All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
CLAUDE MONET

Enchanting Myself Reveal
When I work I forget all the rest.
CLAUDE MONET

Forget Myself Paint Understand Work
I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.
CLAUDE MONET

Appreciation Goodness Happiness Myself Praise Time
Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
CLAUDE MONET

Catch Nature Order
The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
CLAUDE MONET

Live Myself Regret
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Absence Better Deal Determination Hard Work Myself Paint
When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
CLAUDE MONET

Darkness Death Myself Thinking
Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
CLAUDE MONET

Discover Listening Myself
The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
CLAUDE MONET

Atmosphere Beautiful Change Light Time
Every 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.
CLAUDE MONET

Beautiful Day Desire Discover Head Myself
Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
CLAUDE MONET

Garden Goodness Myself Paint
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
CLAUDE MONET

Flower Myself Nature Paint
I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
CLAUDE MONET

Future Myself Sleep
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Enough Myself Paint Painting Sufficient
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.
CLAUDE MONET

End Evening Forget Myself Responsibility Work

While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Claude Monet Quotes