I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
CLAUDE MONETThanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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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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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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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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I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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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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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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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.
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I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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