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“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.”

Knows Giving Seems Trouble Painting Please Anxiety

Book:Monet at Vétheuil and on the Norman Coast, 1878-1883

Source: Monet at Vétheuil and on the Norman Coast, 1878-1883

“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.”

Thinking Knows Long Painting Please Harder Frustration

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“If my wife is cooking a meal at home, which is not often, thankfully, but you know, she's doing (oh, she's good at some things) but if she's cooking, you know, she's dealing with people on the phone, she's talking to the kids, she's painting the ceiling, she's doing open-heart surgery over here; if I'm cooking, the door is shut, the kids are out, the phone's on the hook, if she comes in I get annoyed, I say "Terry, please, I'm trying to fry an egg in here, give me a break.".”

“I get letters from people about my work. The thing that pleases me most is that my work touches their feelings. In fact, they don't talk about the paintings. They end up telling me the story of their life or how their father died.”

People Ends Facts Stories Feelings Father Painting Please Letters Died Father Died Please Me

Author:Andrew Wyeth

“Music - so different from painting - is the art which we enjoy most in company with others. A symphony, presented in a room with one other listener, would please him but little.”

Littles Art Different Enjoy Rooms Company Painting Please Listeners Symphony

Book:On Music and Musicians

Source: On Music and Musicians

“If a painting of mine suits me, it is right. If it does not please me, I care not if all the great masters should approve it or the dealers buy it. They would be wrong.”

Ifs Should Doe Would Be Care Mines Painting Masters Please Satisfaction Suits I Care Dealer Please Me

Author:Arshile Gorky

“There are quite a lot of people asking for a painting so I'm not able to fulfil all their wishes. And this gives me a lot of freedom, because if I cannot please them at all I don't have to start to try.”

People Ifs Giving Trying Able Wish Painting Please Give Me Asking

Author:Norbert Bisky