Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
CLAUDE MONETAll I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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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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I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It’s true that fretting never did any good.
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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.
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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
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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’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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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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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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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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I’ve said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.
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If only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
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Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.
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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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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.
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I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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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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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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