My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
CLAUDE MONETI will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.
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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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The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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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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For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I’m exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I’ve set out to do.
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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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Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
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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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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.
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