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 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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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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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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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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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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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No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.
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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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The real subject of every painting is light.
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I’m exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I’ve set out to do.
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Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.
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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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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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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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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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I’m in a foul mood as I’m making stupid mistakes… This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away… what a rage I was in!
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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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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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