I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
CLAUDE MONETI perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
CLAUDE MONETNo 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.
CLAUDE MONETI still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
CLAUDE MONETThe richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
CLAUDE MONETI’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
CLAUDE MONETI’m in a foul mood as I’m making stupid mistakes… This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away… what a rage I was in!
CLAUDE MONETIt is better to have done something than to have been someone.
CLAUDE MONETThe light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
CLAUDE MONETZaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
CLAUDE MONETDespite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.
CLAUDE MONETOne can do something if one can see and understand it.
CLAUDE MONETDespite 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.
CLAUDE MONETI would like to paint the way a bird sings.
CLAUDE MONETI work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
CLAUDE MONETI’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
CLAUDE MONETI let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
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