As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.
CLAUDE MONETI’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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I can only draw what I see.
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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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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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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’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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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.
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I’ve only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.
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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.
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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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