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.
CLAUDE MONETNow 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.
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 MONETTo see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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 MONETFor me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
CLAUDE MONETNo 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.
CLAUDE MONETEveryone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
CLAUDE MONETI say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
CLAUDE MONETThese landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
CLAUDE MONETI 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.
CLAUDE MONETI can only draw what I see.
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 MONETMost people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
CLAUDE MONETMy work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
CLAUDE MONETThe richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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