Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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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All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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I 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.
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I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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The real subject of every painting is light.
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Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
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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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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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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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It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.
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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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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
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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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My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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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’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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