Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
CLAUDE MONETI say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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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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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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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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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
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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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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 only by chance.
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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.
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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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