I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
CLAUDE MONETThe light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.
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For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
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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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When I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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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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Everything changes, even stone.
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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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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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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 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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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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