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.
CLAUDE MONETLots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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.
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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
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Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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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 must have flowers, always, and always.
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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I can only draw what I see.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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I’m in a foul mood as I’m making stupid mistakes… This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away… what a rage I was in!
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