I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
CLAUDE MONETThe real subject of every painting is light.
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’ve done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don’t want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that’s enough.
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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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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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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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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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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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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 can only draw what I see.
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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.
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I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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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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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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I’m enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.
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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 say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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