Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
CLAUDE MONETI didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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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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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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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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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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As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.
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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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Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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The real subject of every painting is light.
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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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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 am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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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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Perhaps it’s true that I’m very hard on myself, but that’s better than exhibiting mediocre work… too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.
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