These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
CLAUDE MONETIt’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
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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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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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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 still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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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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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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When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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