Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
CLAUDE MONETI am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
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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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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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The real subject of every painting is light.
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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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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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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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When I work I forget all the rest.
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