It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
CLAUDE MONETI’ve only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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I’m enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
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No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all’s said and done, a matter of habit.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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I can only draw what I see.
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For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
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I’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.
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