I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
CLAUDE MONETOne can do something if one can see and understand it.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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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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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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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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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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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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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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I’m in a foul mood as I’m making stupid mistakes… This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away… what a rage I was in!
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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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It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
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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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Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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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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