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.
CLAUDE MONETI didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.
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I’ve said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.
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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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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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Perhaps it’s true that I’m very hard on myself, but that’s better than exhibiting mediocre work… too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.
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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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Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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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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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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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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For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
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It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.
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It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
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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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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 done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don’t want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that’s enough.
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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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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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The real subject of every painting is light.
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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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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 still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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