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.
CLAUDE MONETGetting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I’m exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I’ve set out to do.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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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.
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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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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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One day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.
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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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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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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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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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