My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
CLAUDE MONETGardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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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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Lots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
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It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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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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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 didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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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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If only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
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When I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.
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It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
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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 eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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