I never draw except with brush and paint.
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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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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I’m knocked out, I’ve never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I’m quite stupid with it and long only for bed; but I am happy.
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
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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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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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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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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.
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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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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 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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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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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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