It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
CLAUDE MONET
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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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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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Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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Pictures aren’t made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red…But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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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.
CLAUDE MONET