No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
CLAUDE MONETWhen it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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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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Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.
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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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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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If only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
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I’m enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it’s enchanting, it’s delicious, and I hope it will please you.
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