I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
CLAUDE MONETDespite 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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I can only draw what I see.
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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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Perhaps it’s true that I’m very hard on myself, but that’s better than exhibiting mediocre work… too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.
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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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My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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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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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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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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The real subject of every painting is light.
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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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Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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