I’ve said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.
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’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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One’s better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one’s own. In fact it’s a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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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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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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My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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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 don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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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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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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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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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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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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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 still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.
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As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.
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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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The real subject of every painting is light.
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I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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