It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
CLAUDE MONETIt is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
CLAUDE MONETThe point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all’s said and done, a matter of habit.
CLAUDE MONETThe real subject of every painting is light.
CLAUDE MONETI must have flowers, always, and always.
CLAUDE MONETI’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.
CLAUDE MONETOne’s better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one’s own. In fact it’s a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
CLAUDE MONETGetting 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.
CLAUDE MONETA good impression is lost so quickly.
CLAUDE MONETI would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
CLAUDE MONETI 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.
CLAUDE MONETI am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
CLAUDE MONETThanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
CLAUDE MONETFor me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
CLAUDE MONETI didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
CLAUDE MONETI’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
CLAUDE MONETMy eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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