I’m enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.
CLAUDE MONETAs 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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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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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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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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 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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Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.
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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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Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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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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One’s better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one’s own. In fact it’s a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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