"It really is appallingly difficult to do something……" — Claude Monet
"It really is appallingly difficult to do something which is complete in every respect, and I think most people are content with mere approximations. Well, my dear friend, I intend to battle on, scrape off and start again..."
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Claude Monet
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148 Quotes by Claude Monet
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My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and…
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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…
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I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart…
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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My garden is a slow work, pursued with love and I do not deny that I am proud of it.…
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Pictures aren't made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have…
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Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to…
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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, house, a…
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Lots of people will protest that it's quite unreal and that I'm out of my mind, but that's just too…
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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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