I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
CLAUDE MONETI’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
CLAUDE MONETImpressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.
CLAUDE MONETOne day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.
CLAUDE MONETI’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
CLAUDE MONETApart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
CLAUDE MONETOne’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.
CLAUDE MONETFor me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
CLAUDE MONETI 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 MONETI am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
CLAUDE MONETI’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
CLAUDE MONETThe richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
CLAUDE MONETI must have flowers, always, and always.
CLAUDE MONETIt’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
CLAUDE MONETAs 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.
CLAUDE MONETMy work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
CLAUDE MONETI say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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