I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
CLAUDE MONETNow 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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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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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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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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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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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I can only draw what I see.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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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 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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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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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
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