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.
CLAUDE MONETDespite 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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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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I’ve been working so hard that I’m exhausted… I feel I won’t be able to do without a few weeks’ rest, so I’m going off to see the sea.
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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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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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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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For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.
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Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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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 want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found – the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.
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