For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
CLAUDE MONETGardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.
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The real subject of every painting is light.
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I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
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I’ve only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.
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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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Every 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.
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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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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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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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