Quotes by Painting I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting. Claude Monet gardening painting two I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture. Claude Monet torture painting depression Apart from painting and gardening, I'm not good at anything. Claude Monet gardening painting I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel. Claude Monet finishing painting impossible 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. Claude Monet painting achieve years Ninety per cent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in . . . Ruskin's Elements. Claude Monet ninety painting elements No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition. Claude Monet method painting art 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. Claude Monet painting determination absence While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose. Claude Monet finishing painting might 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. Claude Monet painting appreciate pleasure 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 totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is. Claude Monet painting succeed order 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 seem to please so very few others. Claude Monet painting anxiety giving 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 in one thing. But I can't do any thing else. I have only one interest. Claude Monet pity painting men 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 couldn't be more indifferent to it since I know they are bad, I'm certain of it. Claude Monet painting enough perfect I think only of my painting, and if I were to drop it, I think I'd go crazy. Claude Monet painting crazy thinking One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up. Cleo Moore painting naked waste I love meeting people who've read my books. The prime reason to be on the planet is to make things I can show to other people: paintings, books, movies. Clive Barker painting book people I'm not painting myself as a down-home, modest guy. Colin Farrell painting guy home Painting and writing are solitary arts. Conrad Hall painting writing art That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness. Corita Kent painting people looks «4567891011121314»