The real subject of every painting is light.
CLAUDE MONETI’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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
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It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
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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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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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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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When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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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’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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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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