Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I’m exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I’ve set out to do.
CLAUDE MONETThe light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
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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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Lots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all’s said and done, a matter of habit.
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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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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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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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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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.
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