It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
CLAUDE MONET
Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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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.
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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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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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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
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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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