To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
CLAUDE MONETNature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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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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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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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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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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One day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.
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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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I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It’s true that fretting never did any good.
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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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I can only draw what I see.
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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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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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