I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
CLAUDE MONETI am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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The effect of sincerity is to give one’s work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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I’m knocked out, I’ve never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I’m quite stupid with it and long only for bed; but I am happy.
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I can only draw what I see.
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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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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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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
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