I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
CLAUDE MONETI’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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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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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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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When I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.
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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
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Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.
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Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
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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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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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