Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.
CLAUDE MONETIt is better to have done something than to have been someone.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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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 never draw except with brush and paint.
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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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I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
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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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It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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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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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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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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