I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.
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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I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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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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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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While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.
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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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The effect of sincerity is to give one’s work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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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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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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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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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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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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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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I’ve been working so hard that I’m exhausted… I feel I won’t be able to do without a few weeks’ rest, so I’m going off to see the sea.
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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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I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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I can only draw what I see.
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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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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
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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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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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