What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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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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I’ve only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.
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I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
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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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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.
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I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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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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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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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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While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.
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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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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 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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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found – the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.
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The real subject of every painting is light.
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I’m knocked out, I’ve never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I’m quite stupid with it and long only for bed; but I am happy.
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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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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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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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Lots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
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