No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
CLAUDE MONETThe 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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Lots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
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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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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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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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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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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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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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