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.
CLAUDE MONETThe effect of sincerity is to give one’s work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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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 still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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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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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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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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The effect of sincerity is to give one’s work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.
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I can only draw what I see.
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I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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