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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.
Claude Monet -
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.
Claude Monet
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My aim is to give you only the things with which I am completely satisfied, even if it means asking you a little more [time] for them... for if I were to do otherwise I'd turn into a mere painting machine and you would be landed with a pile of incomplete work which would put off the most enthusiastic of art collectors.
Claude Monet -
I would love to do orange and lemon trees silhouetted against the blue sea, but I cannot find them the way I want them.
Claude Monet -
When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, house, a field....Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives your own naive impression of the scene before you.
Claude Monet -
Critic asks: 'And what, sir, is the subject matter of that painting?' - 'The subject matter, my dear good fellow, is the light.
Claude Monet -
No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.
Claude Monet -
I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
Claude Monet
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To have gone to all this trouble to get to this is just too stupid! Outside there's brilliant sunshine but I don't feel up to looking at it.
Claude Monet -
What could be said about me...a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as well.
Claude Monet -
I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
Claude Monet -
Lots of people will protest that it's quite unreal and that I'm out of my mind, but that's just too bad.
Claude Monet -
I'm very happy, very delighted. I'm setting to like a fighting cockerel, for I'm surrounded here by all that I love.
Claude Monet -
I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
Claude Monet
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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.
Claude Monet -
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.
Claude Monet -
When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can't think any more.
Claude Monet -
If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
Claude Monet -
I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
Claude Monet -
What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can only interest himself in one thing. But I can't do any thing else. I have only one interest.
Claude Monet
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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.
Claude Monet -
I know well enough in advance that you'll find my paintings perfect. I know that if they are exhibited they'll be a great success, but I couldn't be more indifferent to it since I know they are bad, I'm certain of it.
Claude Monet -
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.
Claude Monet -
I still don't know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
Claude Monet