I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.
CLAUDE MONETWhen it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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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 work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
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My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.
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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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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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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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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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Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.
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