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.
CLAUDE MONETThe 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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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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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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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Perhaps it’s true that I’m very hard on myself, but that’s better than exhibiting mediocre work… too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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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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Without 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.
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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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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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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
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