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.
CLAUDE MONETFor me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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I 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.
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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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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 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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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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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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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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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’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 better to have done something than to have been someone.
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