I’ve said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.
CLAUDE MONETI’ve only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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I can only draw what I see.
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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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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it’s enchanting, it’s delicious, and I hope it will please you.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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The real subject of every painting is light.
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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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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For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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