I’m in a foul mood as I’m making stupid mistakes… This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away… what a rage I was in!
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Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I’m in a foul mood as I’m making stupid mistakes… This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away… what a rage I was in!
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Perhaps it’s true that I’m very hard on myself, but that’s better than exhibiting mediocre work… too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.
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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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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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Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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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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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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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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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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I can only draw what I see.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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