Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
CLAUDE MONETI still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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I haven’t many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.
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I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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I can only draw what I see.
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For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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Perhaps it’s true that I’m very hard on myself, but that’s better than exhibiting mediocre work… too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.
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Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.
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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 knocked out, I’ve never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I’m quite stupid with it and long only for bed; but I am happy.
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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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