I must have flowers, always, and always.
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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One’s better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one’s own. In fact it’s a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
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I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.
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The effect of sincerity is to give one’s work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.
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Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.
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Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it’s enchanting, it’s delicious, and I hope it will please you.
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I’ve only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
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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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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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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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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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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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