I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
CLAUDE MONETIf only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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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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No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
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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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I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
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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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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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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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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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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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Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I’m exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I’ve set out to do.
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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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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
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