I must have flowers, always, and always.
CLAUDE MONETI am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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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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I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
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If only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
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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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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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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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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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Everything changes, even stone.
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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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