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I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
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 want the unobtainable. Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat, and that's the end. They are finished. I want to paint the air which surrounds the bridge, the house, the boat, the beauty of the air in which these objects are located, and that is nothing short of impossible.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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I have once more taken up things that can't be done: water with grasses weaving on the bottom. But I'm always tackling that sort of thing!
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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.
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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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 nothing satisfies me.
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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 made 800 francs I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still.
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One day I am satisfied, the next day I find it all bad still I hope that some day I will find some of them good.
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Techniques vary, art stays the same it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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Now, more than ever, I realize just how illusory my undeserved success has been. I still hold out some hope of doing better, but age and unhappiness have sapped my strength.
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I'm continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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I would love to do orange and lemon trees silhouetted against the blue sea, but I cannot find them the way I want them.
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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.
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When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can't think any more.
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One day Boudin said to me, 'Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.' I took his advice.
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