I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
CLAUDE MONETAll of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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When I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.
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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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I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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I’m enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.
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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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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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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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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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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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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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The real subject of every painting is light.
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My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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