The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
CLAUDE MONETOne’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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I’m in a foul mood as I’m making stupid mistakes… This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away… what a rage I was in!
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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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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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Everything changes, even stone.
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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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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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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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it’s enchanting, it’s delicious, and I hope it will please you.
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Perhaps it’s true that I’m very hard on myself, but that’s better than exhibiting mediocre work… too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.
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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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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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