I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
CLAUDE MONETThe richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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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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Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
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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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When I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.
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I’m knocked out, I’ve never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I’m quite stupid with it and long only for bed; but I am happy.
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The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all’s said and done, a matter of habit.
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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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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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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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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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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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