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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Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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I haven’t many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.
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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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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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I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.
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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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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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When I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.
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My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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