Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
CLAUDE MONETTechniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
CLAUDE MONETWhen I work I forget all the rest.
CLAUDE MONETIt’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
CLAUDE MONETTo see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
CLAUDE MONETI 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.
CLAUDE MONETI am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
CLAUDE MONETIf only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
CLAUDE MONETMy work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
CLAUDE MONETOne can do something if one can see and understand it.
CLAUDE MONETIt’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
CLAUDE MONETIt is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
CLAUDE MONETThe richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
CLAUDE MONETI perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
CLAUDE MONETWithout the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.
CLAUDE MONETI will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
CLAUDE MONETAll of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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