I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
CLAUDE MONET
Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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I’m working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still.
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The real subject of every painting is light.
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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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One day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.
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I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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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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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all’s said and done, a matter of habit.
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I 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.
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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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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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If only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
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Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I’m exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I’ve set out to do.
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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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