The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
CLAUDE MONETApart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.
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My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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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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Pictures aren’t made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red…But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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I’ve only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.
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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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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
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The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.
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I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.
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