To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
CLAUDE MONETMy life has been nothing but a failure.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
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I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.
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I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
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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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My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
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I’ve said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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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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