One day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.
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 eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.
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It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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I’m enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.
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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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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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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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Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it’s enchanting, it’s delicious, and I hope it will please you.
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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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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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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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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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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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Pictures aren’t made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red…But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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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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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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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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I’m working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still.
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