I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
CLAUDE MONETMost people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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 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 in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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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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Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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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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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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I’m in a foul mood as I’m making stupid mistakes… This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away… what a rage I was in!
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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
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