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I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.

Claude Monet

I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
CLAUDE MONET

Advice Afraid Artist Myself Paint Young
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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Better Hard Myself Public Satisfaction Trouble True
I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
CLAUDE MONET

Feeling Impossible Myself Paint Power Seek
When I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.
CLAUDE MONET

Feeling Forget Nature Oneself Paint
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Fascination Myself Product Repeat Success
Light is the most important person in the picture.
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Important Light Person Photograph
Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it’s enchanting, it’s delicious, and I hope it will please you.
CLAUDE MONET

Bold Delicious Enchanting Feeling Hope Nature Yourself
All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
CLAUDE MONET

Enchanting Myself Reveal
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Choice Color Habit Myself
All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
CLAUDE MONET

Brush Myself See Sight Universe
The real subject of every painting is light.
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Light Painting Reality Subject
I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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Finish Myself Terrible
My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
CLAUDE MONET

Desire Fate Herself Intimacy Law Live Nature
I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
CLAUDE MONET

Miracle Myself Performance Wasted Time
Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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Art Force Nature Sensitive Stay Technique
My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
CLAUDE MONET

Beautiful Garden Masterpiece Myself

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