To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
CLAUDE MONETEverything changes, even stone.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.
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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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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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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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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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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.
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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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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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The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.
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