I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
CLAUDE MONETI 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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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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’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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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
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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’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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