I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
CLAUDE MONETNo one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
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Perhaps it’s true that I’m very hard on myself, but that’s better than exhibiting mediocre work… too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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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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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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Everything changes, even stone.
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The real subject of every painting is light.
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No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.
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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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