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.
CLAUDE MONETTake 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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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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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All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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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.
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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I can only draw what I see.
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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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I haven’t many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.
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I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
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It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
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