Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
CLAUDE MONET
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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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Pictures aren’t made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red…But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.
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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
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Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It’s wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I’m exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I’ve set out to do.
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My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
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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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Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
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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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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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