I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
CLAUDE MONETIt is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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The real subject of every painting is light.
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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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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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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.
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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I’m working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still.
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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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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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When I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.
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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 richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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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 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’ve said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.
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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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For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
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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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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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For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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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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All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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