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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.

Claude Monet

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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Advice Afraid Artist Myself Paint Young
All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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Enchanting Myself Reveal
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
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Artist Composition Head Oneself Painting Photograph
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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Fascination Myself Product Repeat Success
I can only draw what I see.
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Draw Myself See
I’ve done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don’t want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that’s enough.
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Enough Myself Paint Painting Sufficient
My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Heart Myself
I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It’s true that fretting never did any good.
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Devotion Goodness Shame Suffering True
I’m knocked out, I’ve never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I’m quite stupid with it and long only for bed; but I am happy.
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Bed Feeling Happiness Mental Myself
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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Choice Color Habit Myself
These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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Obsession Reflection Water
The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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Atmosphere Beautiful Change Light Time
It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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Action Better Myself Reputation
I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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Criticism Myself Opinion
One’s better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one’s own. In fact it’s a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
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Alone Better Business Hard Impossible Oneself
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Myself Nature Paint
Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It’s wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.
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Myself Paint Try Water Wonderful
I’ve been working so hard that I’m exhausted… I feel I won’t be able to do without a few weeks’ rest, so I’m going off to see the sea.
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Exhaustion Hard Work Myself Sea See
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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Beautiful Bridge Home Impossible Myself Paint
I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Flower Forever Garden Heart Love Myself Need Time Work
If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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Appearance Myself Painting World
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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Attention Catch Dare Easy Myself People
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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Afraid Bad Courage Paint Physical Tragedy World
Everything changes, even stone.
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Change Life One Liner Stone
I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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Build Earth Happiness Kind Myself Thinking
Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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Discover Listening Myself
I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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Miracle Myself Performance Wasted Time

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