I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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If only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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I’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.
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Lots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
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I’m knocked out, I’ve never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I’m quite stupid with it and long only for bed; but I am happy.
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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 must have flowers, always, and always.
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Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.
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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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