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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
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Claude Monet
Age: 86 †
Born: 1840
Born: November 14
Died: 1926
Died: December 5
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You might perhaps like to see the few canvases I was able to save from the bailiffs and the rest, since I thought you might be so good as to help me a little, as I am in quite a desperate state, and the worst is that I can no longer even work.
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I'm knocked out, I've never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I'm quite stupid with it and long only for bed but I am happy.
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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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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
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It's enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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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.
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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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I have made tremendous efforts to work in a darker register and express the sinister and tragic quality of the place, given my natural tendency to work in light and pale tones.
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The Thames was all gold. God it was beautiful, so fine that I began working a frenzy, following the sun and its reflections on the water.
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I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.
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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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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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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 which should be discarded.
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All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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The real subject of every painting is light.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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