When I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.
CLAUDE MONETI’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!
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I’m enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.
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I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
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No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
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Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
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It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.
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If only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
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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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I’ve said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.
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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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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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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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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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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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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 must have flowers, always, and always.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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I haven’t many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.
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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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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 only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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