Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
CLAUDE MONETI’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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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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No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
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Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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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.
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