Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
CLAUDE MONETI can only draw what I see.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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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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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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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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I’m in a foul mood as I’m making stupid mistakes… This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away… what a rage I was in!
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Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I’m exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I’ve set out to do.
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Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
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Lots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
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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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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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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.
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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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While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.
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Pictures aren’t made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red…But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.
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