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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
Claude Monet
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Claude Monet
Age: 86 †
Born: 1840
Born: November 14
Died: 1926
Died: December 5
Graphic Artist
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Paris
France
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Gardening
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What could be said about me...a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as well.
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While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.
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I see less and less... I need to avoid lateral light, which darkens my colors. Nevertheless, I always paint at the times of day most propitious for me, as long as my paint tubes and brushes are not mixed up... I will paint almost blind, as Beethoven composed completely deaf.
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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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When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can't think any more.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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The Thames was all gold. God it was beautiful, so fine that I began working a frenzy, following the sun and its reflections on the water.
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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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I insist upon 'doing it alone'... I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.
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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 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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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.
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I've spent so long on some paintings that I no longer know what to think of them, and I am definitely getting harder to please nothing satisfies me.
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One day Boudin said to me, 'Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.' I took his advice.
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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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My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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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.
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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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