For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
CLAUDE MONETLots 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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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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I can only draw what I see.
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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 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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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
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I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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One day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.
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Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.
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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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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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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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I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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The real subject of every painting is light.
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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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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I haven’t many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
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