I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
CLAUDE MONETOne’s better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one’s own. In fact it’s a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I’ve done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don’t want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that’s enough.
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Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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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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I’ve said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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I’m working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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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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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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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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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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