I can only draw what I see.
CLAUDE MONETMy eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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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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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For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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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’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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