"I am good at only two things, and……" — Claude Monet

"I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting."

— Claude Monet

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148 Quotes by Claude Monet

Claude Monet has 148 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and…
What could be said about me...a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his…
I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart…
The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
My garden is a slow work, pursued with love and I do not deny that I am proud of it.…
Pictures aren't made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have…
Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to…
What I need most of all is color, always, always.
Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, house, a…
Lots of people will protest that it's quite unreal and that I'm out of my mind, but that's just too…
I've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don't want to…

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More Gardening Quotes

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In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. — Margaret Atwood
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is… — Alfred Austin
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. — Alfred Austin
There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class… — Alfred Austin
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. — Francis Bacon
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions.… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the… — Douglas Adams
I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. — Luis Barragan
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for… — Joseph Addison
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume… — Georges Bernanos
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough? — Wendell Berry

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