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 MONETI’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It’s true that fretting never did any good.
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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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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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One’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.
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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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One day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.
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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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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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It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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If only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
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I’ve been working so hard that I’m exhausted… I feel I won’t be able to do without a few weeks’ rest, so I’m going off to see the sea.
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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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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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I 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.
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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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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Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.
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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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