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Painting Quotes by 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.
- 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…
- Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
- 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…
- I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
- 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…
- Manet wanted one day to paint my wife and children. Renoir was there. He took a canvas and began painting them, too. After a while,…
- I'm working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have…
- 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]…
- While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose...
- I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
- I've spent so long on some paintings that I no longer know what to think of them, and I am definitely getting harder to please;…
- 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…
- I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
- I intend to do a large painting of the cliff at Etretat, although it is terribly bold of me to do so after Courbet has…
- I'm in a foul mood as I'm making stupid mistakes... This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having…
- I think only of my painting, and if I were to drop it, I think I'd go crazy.
- 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 still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and…
- I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I…
- Critic asks: 'And what, sir, is the subject matter of that painting?' - 'The subject matter, my dear good fellow, is the light.
- 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…
- Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
- No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
- I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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- If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. — Honore de Balzac
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