It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
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 never draw except with brush and paint.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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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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The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.
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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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I’m in a foul mood as I’m making stupid mistakes… This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away… what a rage I was in!
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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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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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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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Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It’s wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.
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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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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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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 say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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If only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
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I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found – the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.
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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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