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 MONET
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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.
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My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.
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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 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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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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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’ve only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.
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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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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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