I never draw except with brush and paint.
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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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 say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
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I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found – the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.
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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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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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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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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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