I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
CLAUDE MONETEvery day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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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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It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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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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I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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I’m working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still.
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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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I’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.
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I haven’t many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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I can only draw what I see.
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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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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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