My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
CLAUDE MONETI would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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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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My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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I’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.
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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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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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The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.
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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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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
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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’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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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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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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