Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
CLAUDE MONETListening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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’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 am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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I can only draw what I see.
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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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The effect of sincerity is to give one’s work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.
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Lots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
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