I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
CLAUDE MONETThe richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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If only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
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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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No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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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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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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For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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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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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all’s said and done, a matter of habit.
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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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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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The real subject of every painting is light.
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One’s better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one’s own. In fact it’s a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
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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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I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
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I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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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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