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.
CLAUDE MONETIt is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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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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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 am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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I’m in a foul mood as I’m making stupid mistakes… This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away… what a rage I was in!
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Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I’m exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I’ve set out to do.
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Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
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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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Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.
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Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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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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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.
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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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All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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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 didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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As 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.
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