Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.
CLAUDE MONETI work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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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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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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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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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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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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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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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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Pictures aren’t made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red…But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.
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No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.
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