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.
CLAUDE MONETLight is the most important person in the picture.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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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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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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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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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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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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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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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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The real subject of every painting is light.
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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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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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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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