These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
CLAUDE MONETThe more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
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I’ve been working so hard that I’m exhausted… I feel I won’t be able to do without a few weeks’ rest, so I’m going off to see the sea.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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If only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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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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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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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 can only draw what I see.
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