Claude Monet Quotes

I spend as much time as I can in my garden, and if I'm not writing songs or gardening, I'm painting.

Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life.... Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in these difficult and ugly days! He is one of the few people left in this distressful world to carry on the tradition of elegance and charm. A useless member of society, considered in terms of economics, he must not be denied his rightful place. He deserves to share it, however humbly, with the painter and poet.

If not a chef, I would have been a painter maybe. I have interest in painting, and I do it well.

I love movies, don't get me wrong. But I don't go to the cinema. I see movies at the end of the year as a glut from the Academy. I binge-watch all the nominated films. Painting fills that void now. It's oils. It's acrylics. It's figurative, portraits and landscape.

Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.

Of all human activities, apart from the procreation of children, gardening is the most optimistic and hopeful. The gardener is by definition one who plans for and believes and trusts in a future, whether in the short or the longer term.

Apart from painting and gardening, I'm not good at anything.

Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.

When I was really young, I was convinced I wanted to be a visual artist. I would paint and draw and make crafts.

I'm a creative person. I love to write, I love to act, I love to perform, I love to create things with my hands, so I do all of these things that are kind of like hobbies in a way. They're things that I love, so it's not like a work-life balance; it's just a work-life marriage.

I love visual mediums, and I've always painted and drawn.

I'm a caterer, interior decorator - a lot of hobbies people don't know I do.

I see myself as a writer who happens to garden.

No hidden talents, but I have a lot of hobbies. Acrylic painting - I got a whole set, and I light candles at night and sit there and paint and look out on Lake Michigan.

I paint. I have been painting since I was kid. If I hadn't gone into radio when I did, I probably would have come out of the Army, gone into the art business, and probably would have flopped because I'm not that great.

I love arts and crafts. They used to be my favorite in school.

I used to draw and do a lot of calligraphy and typography. I'm a big sketcher, too.

If I inherited a billion dollars and didn't have to work ever again, what would I do to fill my day? I'd paint, I'd write jokes and stories, and I'd hang out and chat to very interesting people.

I love playing poker, reading, and painting.

I am a creative person. I like painting, singing, dancing, etc.

When I have time, I write other things. I'm working on a book, I paint, I sculpt, I play with my dog, I watch television - I catch up on South Park or movies or whatever I've missed, normal stuff.

Dr. Johnson ... sometimes employed himself in chymistry, sometimes in watering and pruning a vine, and sometimes in small experiments, at which those who may smile, should recollect that there are moments which admit of being soothed only by trifles.

I adore gardening, and whenever I have time off, that is my passion.

Gardeners (or just plain simple writers who write about the garden) always have something they like intensely and in particular, right at the moment you engage them in the reality of the borders they cultivate, the space in the garden they occupy at any moment, they like in particular this, or they like in particular that.