I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
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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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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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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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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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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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
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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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When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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