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Work Quotes by Claude Monet
- I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
- My garden is a slow work, pursued with love and I do not deny that I am proud of it. Forty years ago, when I…
- I have made tremendous efforts to work in a darker register and express the sinister and tragic quality of the place, given my natural tendency…
- The effect of sincerity is to give one's work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks…
- 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…
- 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]…
- You might perhaps like to see the few canvases I was able to save from the bailiffs and the rest, since I thought you might…
- It goes without saying that I will do anything at any price to pull myself out of a situation like this [rejection] so that I…
- Thanks to my work everything's going well; it's a great consolation.
- I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
- I've only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be…
- 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…
- 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…
- If only the weather would improve, there'd be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
- 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…
- I'm continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
- I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
- 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…
- When I work I forget all the rest.
- Think of me getting up before 6, I'm at work by 7 and I continue until 6.30 in the evening, standing up all the time,…
More Work Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle