I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
CLAUDE MONETLight is the most important person in the picture.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to 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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Everything changes, even stone.
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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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One’s better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one’s own. In fact it’s a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
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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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I’ve said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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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 don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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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.
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