It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
CLAUDE MONETMy heart is forever in Giverny.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
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No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.
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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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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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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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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 will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
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Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.
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It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.
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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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