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.
CLAUDE MONETI can only draw what I see.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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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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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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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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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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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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Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it’s enchanting, it’s delicious, and I hope it will please you.
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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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