I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
CLAUDE MONETI want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found – the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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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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One’s better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one’s own. In fact it’s a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
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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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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It’s wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.
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For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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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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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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