I’ve done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don’t want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that’s enough.
CLAUDE MONETNo one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love 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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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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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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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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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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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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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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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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I can only draw what I see.
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