The effect of sincerity is to give one’s work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.
CLAUDE MONETGardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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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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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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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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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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I can only draw what I see.
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When I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.
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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.
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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