I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
CLAUDE MONETMy eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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I can only draw what I see.
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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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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 sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It’s true that fretting never did any good.
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I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.
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The real subject of every painting is light.
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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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It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
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When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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