I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
CLAUDE MONETAs for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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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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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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I’ve only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.
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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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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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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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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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