When I work I forget all the rest.
CLAUDE MONETI work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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Pictures aren’t made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red…But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.
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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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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.
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I’ve only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.
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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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I’ve done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don’t want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that’s enough.
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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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