Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
CLAUDE MONETIt took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.
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As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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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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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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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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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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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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