I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
CLAUDE MONET
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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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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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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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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.
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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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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’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all’s said and done, a matter of habit.
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It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.
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Lots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
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I’ve said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.
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