The real subject of every painting is light.
CLAUDE MONETI’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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I’m in a foul mood as I’m making stupid mistakes… This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away… what a rage I was in!
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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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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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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I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.
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Getting 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.
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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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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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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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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