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 MONETI perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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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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I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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Every 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.
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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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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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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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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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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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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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