"As for myself, I met with as much……" — Claude Monet
"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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148 Quotes by Claude Monet
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My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and…
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What could be said about me...a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his…
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I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart…
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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My garden is a slow work, pursued with love and I do not deny that I am proud of it.…
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Pictures aren't made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have…
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Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to…
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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, house, a…
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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…
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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…
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I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what…
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A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and…
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The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism…
— Walter Benjamin
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Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its…
— Theodore Bikel
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A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically…
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Be a doer and not a critic.
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I'm my worst critic, and I like the fact that I can listen to myself now and make fun of…
— Mary J. Blige
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Now everyone is a critic.
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I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what…
— Michael Caine
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A career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic.
— Tony Campolo
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Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of…
— Raymond Chandler
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