Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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’ve only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.
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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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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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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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Lots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
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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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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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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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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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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’m working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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