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.
CLAUDE MONETI am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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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’ve only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.
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I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
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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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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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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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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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