Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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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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 despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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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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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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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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If only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
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Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It’s wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.
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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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When I work I forget all the rest.
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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