I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
CLAUDE MONETI despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Everything changes, even stone.
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.
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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 waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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Perhaps it’s true that I’m very hard on myself, but that’s better than exhibiting mediocre work… too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.
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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 am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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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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Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
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