I’ve done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don’t want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that’s enough.
CLAUDE MONETWithout the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
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Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.
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I haven’t many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
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My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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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 richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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I’m in a foul mood as I’m making stupid mistakes… This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away… what a rage I was in!
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Everything changes, even stone.
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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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