Light is the most important person in the picture.
CLAUDE MONETIf the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
More Claude Monet Quotes
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While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.
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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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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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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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I’m in a foul mood as I’m making stupid mistakes… This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away… what a rage I was in!
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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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’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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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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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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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 am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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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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