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Claude Monet Inspirational Quotes (109)

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I'm quite content: although what I'm doing is far from being as I should like, I am complemented often enough all the same.
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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Work is nearly always a torture. If I could find something else I would be much happier, because I could use this other interest as a form of relaxation. Now I cannot relax.
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I've been working so hard that I'm exhausted... I feel I won't be able to do without a few weeks' rest, so I'm going off to see the sea.
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It seems to me that when I see nature I see it ready-made, completely written - but then, try to do it!
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One day I am satisfied, the next day I find it all bad still I hope that some day I will find some of them good.
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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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I'm getting so slow at my work it makes me despair, but... I'm increasingly obsessed by the need to render what I experience, and I'm praying that I'll have a few more good years left to me.
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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
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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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The creditors are proving impossible to deal with and short of a sudden appearance on the scene of wealthy art patrons, we are going to be turned out of this dear little house where I led a simple life and was able to work so well. I do not know what will become of us.
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I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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One's better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one's own. In fact it's a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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My aim is to give you only the things with which I am completely satisfied, even if it means asking you a little more [time] for them... for if I were to do otherwise I'd turn into a mere painting machine and you would be landed with a pile of incomplete work which would put off the most enthusiastic of art collectors.
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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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I do have a dream, a tableau of the bathing place of La Grenouillère, for which I've done some bad pochades (sketches), but it is a dream. Renoir, who have just spent a couple of months here, also wants to paint this subject.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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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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I would love to do orange and lemon trees silhouetted against the blue sea, but I cannot find them the way I want them.
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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