If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
CLAUDE MONETI still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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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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For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
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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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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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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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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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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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I’m in a foul mood as I’m making stupid mistakes… This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away… what a rage I was in!
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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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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