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.
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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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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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 would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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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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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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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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I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.
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