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.
CLAUDE MONETIt’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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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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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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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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As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.
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I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found – the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.
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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 am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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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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Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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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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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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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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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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My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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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.
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No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
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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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If only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
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I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
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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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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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