It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
CLAUDE MONETI 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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It’s wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.
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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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Lots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
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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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Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it’s enchanting, it’s delicious, and I hope it will please you.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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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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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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I can only draw what I see.
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I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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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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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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