When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
CLAUDE MONETI’m enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I’ve done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don’t want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that’s enough.
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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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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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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 say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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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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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
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Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It’s wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.
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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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