Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
CLAUDE MONETMy only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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One’s better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one’s own. In fact it’s a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
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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 despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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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 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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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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