I’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.
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.
CLAUDE MONETOne can do something if one can see and understand it.
CLAUDE MONETIf the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
CLAUDE MONETApart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
CLAUDE MONETIt is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
CLAUDE MONETMy garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
CLAUDE MONETTake 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.
CLAUDE MONETWhen I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.
CLAUDE MONETI am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
CLAUDE MONETNature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
CLAUDE MONETI’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.
CLAUDE MONETMy eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
CLAUDE MONETTechniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
CLAUDE MONETI perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
CLAUDE MONETI am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
CLAUDE MONETI never draw except with brush and paint.
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