What I need most of all is color, always, always.
CLAUDE MONETWithout 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.
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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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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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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Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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One’s better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one’s own. In fact it’s a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
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For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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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 would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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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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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 real subject of every painting is light.
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