It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
CLAUDE MONETMy heart is forever in Giverny.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
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I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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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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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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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It’s wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.
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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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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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