Light is the most important person in the picture.
CLAUDE MONETMy work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
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The real subject of every painting is light.
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I’m in a foul mood as I’m making stupid mistakes… This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away… what a rage I was in!
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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
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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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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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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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The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all’s said and done, a matter of habit.
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All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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Pictures aren’t made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red…But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.
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