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.
CLAUDE MONETWhat I need most of all is color, always, always.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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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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When I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.
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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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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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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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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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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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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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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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