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 MONETI still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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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 must have flowers, always, and always.
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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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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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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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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 will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.
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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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