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.
CLAUDE MONETLight is the most important person in the picture.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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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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The real subject of every painting is light.
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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Lots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
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One day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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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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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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