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.
CLAUDE MONETI would like to paint the way a bird sings.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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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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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.
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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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No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.
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I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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The real subject of every painting is light.
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I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
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I can only draw what I see.
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