It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
CLAUDE MONETFor me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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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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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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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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I can only draw what I see.
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The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.
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I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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The real subject of every painting is light.
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When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
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