I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
CLAUDE MONETI’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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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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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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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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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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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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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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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One’s better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one’s own. In fact it’s a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
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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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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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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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