Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
CLAUDE MONETNever, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
CLAUDE MONETI’m knocked out, I’ve never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I’m quite stupid with it and long only for bed; but I am happy.
CLAUDE MONETMy life has been nothing but a failure.
CLAUDE MONETOne day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.
CLAUDE MONETWhen 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.
CLAUDE MONETI never draw except with brush and paint.
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 MONETAs for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.
CLAUDE MONETColors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
CLAUDE MONETI’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.
CLAUDE MONETI’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 MONETMy work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
CLAUDE MONETThe point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all’s said and done, a matter of habit.
CLAUDE MONETWhile adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.
CLAUDE MONETIt’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
CLAUDE MONETWhat I need most of all is color, always, always.
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