I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
CLAUDE MONETI still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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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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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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The effect of sincerity is to give one’s work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.
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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 am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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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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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.
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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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When I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.
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