Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
CLAUDE MONETI’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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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The effect of sincerity is to give one’s work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.
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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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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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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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I can only draw what I see.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
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For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it’s enchanting, it’s delicious, and I hope it will please you.
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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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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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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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