I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
CLAUDE MONETThe more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I’ve done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don’t want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that’s enough.
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I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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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 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 say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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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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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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I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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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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One day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.
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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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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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