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.
CLAUDE MONETListening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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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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For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
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I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
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I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
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Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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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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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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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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As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.
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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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It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
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