Light is the most important person in the picture.
CLAUDE MONETThe 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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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I’ve done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don’t want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that’s enough.
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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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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I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
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I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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I’m in a foul mood as I’m making stupid mistakes… This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away… what a rage I was in!
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Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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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 didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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