My heart is forever in Giverny.
CLAUDE MONETIf only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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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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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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I’m knocked out, I’ve never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I’m quite stupid with it and long only for bed; but I am happy.
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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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My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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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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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 would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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Perhaps it’s true that I’m very hard on myself, but that’s better than exhibiting mediocre work… too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.
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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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