When I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.
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 didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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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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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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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’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.
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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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Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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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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I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
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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 sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It’s true that fretting never did any good.
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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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The effect of sincerity is to give one’s work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.
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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
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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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One day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.
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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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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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