I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
CLAUDE MONETFor me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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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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For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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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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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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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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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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The real subject of every painting is light.
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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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