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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 be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism that's enough.
Claude Monet
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Claude Monet
Age: 86 †
Born: 1840
Born: November 14
Died: 1926
Died: December 5
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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.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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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.
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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