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 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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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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’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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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.
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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’m enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.
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Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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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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I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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