I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
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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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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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’m working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still.
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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’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.
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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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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’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
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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 say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it’s enchanting, it’s delicious, and I hope it will please you.
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