I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
CLAUDE MONETTake clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It’s wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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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 still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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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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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’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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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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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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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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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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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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