Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
CLAUDE MONETWhat I need most of all is color, always, always.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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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 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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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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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 will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
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My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.
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If only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
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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 didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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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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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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