Claude Monet Quotes - Page 3

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• Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.

  Claude Monet

  Art, Technique, Sensitive

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• All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.

  Claude Monet

  Ponds, Revelations, Enchanting

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• I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.

  Claude Monet

  Depression, Painting, Torture

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• It was at home I learned the little I know. Schools always appeared to me like a prison, and never could I make up my mind to stay there, not even for four hours a day, when the sunshine was inviting, the sea smooth, and when it was joy to run about the cliffs in the free air, or to paddle in the water.

  Claude Monet

  Running, Home, Learning

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• My life has been nothing but a failure.

  Claude Monet

  Failure, Has Beens

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• I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.

  Claude Monet

  Flower, Heart, Garden

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• Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.

  Claude Monet

  Art, Flower, World

  Christoph Heinrich, Claude Monet (1994). “Monet”, Taschen

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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.

  Claude Monet

  Giving, Anxiety, Painting

  David Joel, Claude Monet (2002). “Monet at Vétheuil and on the Norman Coast, 1878-1883”, Antique Collectors Club Limited

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• I see less and less... I need to avoid lateral light, which darkens my colors. Nevertheless, I always paint at the times of day most propitious for me, as long as my paint tubes and brushes are not mixed up... I will paint almost blind, as Beethoven composed completely deaf.

  Claude Monet

  Light, Color, Long

  "Monet in the 20th Century". Book by Paul Hayes Tucker, 1998.

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• I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.

  Claude Monet

  Thinking, Kind, Pleasure

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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

  Art, Mean, Giving

  Claude Monet (1999). “Monet by himself: paintings, drawings, pastels, letters”

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• 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.

  Claude Monet

  Solitude, Tasks, Facts

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• It really is appallingly difficult to do something which is complete in every respect, and I think most people are content with mere approximations. Well, my dear friend, I intend to battle on, scrape off and start again.

  Claude Monet

  Thinking, People, Battle

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.

  Claude Monet

  Thinking, People, Paint

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• A good impression is lost so quickly.

  Claude Monet

  Lost, Impression, Impressionism

  Claude Monet (1999). “Monet by himself: paintings, drawings, pastels, letters”

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• For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.

  Claude Monet

  Change, Doe, Landscape

  Joachim Pissarro, Claude Monet (1990). “Monet's cathedral: Rouen 1892-1894”, Pavilion Books, Limited

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• Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.

  Claude Monet

  Mediocrity, Trouble, Enough

  Claude Monet (2005). “Monet”, Rizzoli International Publications

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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.

  Claude Monet

  Finishing, Impossible, Painting

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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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.

  Claude Monet

  People, Attention, Easy

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• 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.

  Claude Monet

  Air, Bridges, House

  John House, Claude Monet (1986). “Monet: Nature Into Art”

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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

  Claude Monet

  People, Mind, Criticism

  Claude Monet (1999). “Monet by himself: paintings, drawings, pastels, letters”

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• 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 Monet

  Art, Painting, Method

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• I can only draw what I see.

  Claude Monet

  Draws, I Can

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• I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.

  Claude Monet

  Desire, Paint, Fine

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• Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.

  Claude Monet

  Children

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