I haven’t many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.
CLAUDE MONETI’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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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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Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It’s wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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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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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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The effect of sincerity is to give one’s work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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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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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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