I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It’s true that fretting never did any good.
CLAUDE MONETPictures 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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
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Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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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 had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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I’ve only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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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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The real subject of every painting is light.
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