The real subject of every painting is light.
CLAUDE MONETI’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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.
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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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My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.
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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.
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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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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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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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