While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.
CLAUDE MONETTo see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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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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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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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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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.
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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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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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Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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