It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
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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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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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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I’m enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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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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Everything changes, even stone.
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I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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I 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.
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