The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
CLAUDE MONETThe more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Everything changes, even stone.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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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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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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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all’s said and done, a matter of habit.
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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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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I haven’t many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.
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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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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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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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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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