Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
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’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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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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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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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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I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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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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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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No 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.
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