As 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.
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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My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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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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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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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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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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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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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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I’m knocked out, I’ve never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I’m quite stupid with it and long only for bed; but I am happy.
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Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I’m exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I’ve set out to do.
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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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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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