Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
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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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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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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I can only draw what I see.
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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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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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I’m working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still.
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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I’ve been working so hard that I’m exhausted… I feel I won’t be able to do without a few weeks’ rest, so I’m going off to see the sea.
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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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