No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.
CLAUDE MONETFor me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
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I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
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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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If only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
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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 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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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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