I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
CLAUDE MONETEverything changes, even stone.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It’s true that fretting never did any good.
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Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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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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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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For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
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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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