My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
CLAUDE MONETNow I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it’s enchanting, it’s delicious, and I hope it will please you.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.
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Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.
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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.
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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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Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it’s enchanting, it’s delicious, and I hope it will please you.
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I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
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It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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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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Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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