I’ve been working so hard that I’m exhausted… I feel I won’t be able to do without a few weeks’ rest, so I’m going off to see the sea.
CLAUDE MONETIt is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found – the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.
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I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
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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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It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
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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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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
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