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.
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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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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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’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 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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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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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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Everything changes, even stone.
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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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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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