Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
CLAUDE MONETI still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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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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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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I haven’t many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.
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Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
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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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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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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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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all’s said and done, a matter of habit.
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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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I’ve said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.
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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 sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It’s true that fretting never did any good.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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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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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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One day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.
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Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I’m exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I’ve set out to do.
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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I’ve been working so hard that I’m exhausted… I feel I won’t be able to do without a few weeks’ rest, so I’m going off to see the sea.
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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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My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
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