I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
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 perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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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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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
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No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.
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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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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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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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My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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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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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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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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