These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
CLAUDE MONETMost people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.
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I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it’s enchanting, it’s delicious, and I hope it will please you.
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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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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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All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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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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I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
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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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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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