Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
CLAUDE MONETI do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Everything changes, even stone.
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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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The real subject of every painting is light.
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I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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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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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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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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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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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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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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I’m knocked out, I’ve never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I’m quite stupid with it and long only for bed; but I am happy.
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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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