No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.
CLAUDE MONETThanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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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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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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I can only draw what I see.
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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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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 say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.
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