All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
CLAUDE MONETNothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
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Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
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While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.
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I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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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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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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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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For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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The real subject of every painting is light.
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I’m working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still.
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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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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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Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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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 it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
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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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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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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.
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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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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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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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Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
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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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