Light is the most important person in the picture.
CLAUDE MONETNothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
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I’m knocked out, I’ve never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I’m quite stupid with it and long only for bed; but I am happy.
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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
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The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all’s said and done, a matter of habit.
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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.
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Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.
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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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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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Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.
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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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I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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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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