As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.
CLAUDE MONETThanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
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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 will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
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Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.
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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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I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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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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When I work I forget all the rest.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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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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All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
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