All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
CLAUDE MONETEvery day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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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.
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I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found – the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.
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I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.
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The real subject of every painting is light.
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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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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Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
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My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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The effect of sincerity is to give one’s work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.
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