When I work I forget all the rest.
CLAUDE MONETWhen 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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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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 eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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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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I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
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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 am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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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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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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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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If only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
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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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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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