I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It’s true that fretting never did any good.
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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For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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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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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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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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If only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
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One’s better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one’s own. In fact it’s a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
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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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All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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