If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
CLAUDE MONETIt is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
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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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I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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I can only draw what I see.
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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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It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.
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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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One’s better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one’s own. In fact it’s a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
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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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The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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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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