Light is the most important person in the picture.
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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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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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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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it’s enchanting, it’s delicious, and I hope it will please you.
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I’ve been working so hard that I’m exhausted… I feel I won’t be able to do without a few weeks’ rest, so I’m going off to see the sea.
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I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It’s wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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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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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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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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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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