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.
CLAUDE MONETI’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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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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For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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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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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
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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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