Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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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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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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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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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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.
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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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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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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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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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Perhaps it’s true that I’m very hard on myself, but that’s better than exhibiting mediocre work… too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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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’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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