I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
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 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 perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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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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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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My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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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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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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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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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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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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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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I’m working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still.
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Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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