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 MONETNothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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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 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.
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The real subject of every painting is light.
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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 let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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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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The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.
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I haven’t many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.
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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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While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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