I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
CLAUDE MONETMy work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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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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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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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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Lots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
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I’m working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still.
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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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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 work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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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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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
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It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
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The real subject of every painting is light.
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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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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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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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I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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