Pictures aren’t made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red…But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.
CLAUDE MONET
I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Pictures aren’t made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red…But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.
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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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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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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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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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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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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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I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been 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’m in a foul mood as I’m making stupid mistakes… This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away… what a rage I was in!
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Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
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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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