Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It’s wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.
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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When I work I forget all the rest.
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Lots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
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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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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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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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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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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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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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