Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
CLAUDE MONETColor is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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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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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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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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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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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 can only draw what I see.
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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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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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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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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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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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