As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.
CLAUDE MONETWhat I need most of all is color, always, always.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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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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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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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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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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One’s better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one’s own. In fact it’s a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
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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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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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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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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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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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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 am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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I’m enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.
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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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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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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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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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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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