What I need most of all is color, always, always.
CLAUDE MONETEvery 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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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.
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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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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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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
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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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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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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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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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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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While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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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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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.
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