I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
CLAUDE MONETI’ve said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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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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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.
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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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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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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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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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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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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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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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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Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I’m exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I’ve set out to do.
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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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