When I work I forget all the rest.
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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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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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’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.
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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 must have flowers, always, and always.
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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Pictures aren’t made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red…But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.
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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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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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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 heart is forever in Giverny.
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