I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
CLAUDE MONETThe more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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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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For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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One’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.
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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 heart is forever in Giverny.
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I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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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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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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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 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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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 want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found – the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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