Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
CLAUDE MONETThe light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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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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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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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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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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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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I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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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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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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I haven’t many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.
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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 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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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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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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I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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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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Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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I 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.
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