I’ve only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.
CLAUDE MONETI can only draw what I see.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.
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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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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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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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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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