I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
CLAUDE MONETMy work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
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I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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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 bad.
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It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
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Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it’s enchanting, it’s delicious, and I hope it will please you.
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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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Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.
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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 responsibilities, thinking only of the work I’ve set out to do.
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I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found – the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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