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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- black
- grey
- blue
- red
- brown
- white
Lots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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When I work I forget all the rest.
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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.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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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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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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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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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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I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
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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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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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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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