Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.
CLAUDE MONETIt’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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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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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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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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Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.
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One day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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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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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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I can only draw what I see.
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