Light is the most important person in the picture.
CLAUDE MONETNo one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I’ve done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don’t want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that’s enough.
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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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One day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.
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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 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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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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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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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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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.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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