Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
CLAUDE MONETI want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found – the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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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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Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.
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I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.
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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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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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I can only draw what I see.
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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Pictures aren’t made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red…But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.
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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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Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it’s enchanting, it’s delicious, and I hope it will please you.
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