Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
CLAUDE MONETNever, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
CLAUDE MONETWhat I need most of all is color, always, always.
CLAUDE MONETI’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
CLAUDE MONETMy eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
CLAUDE MONETI am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
CLAUDE MONETAll of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
CLAUDE MONETI didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
CLAUDE MONETThe 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.
CLAUDE MONETIt is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
CLAUDE MONETPictures 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.
CLAUDE MONETMy life has been nothing but a failure.
CLAUDE MONETNothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
CLAUDE MONETI am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
CLAUDE MONETThe 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.
CLAUDE MONETI 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.
CLAUDE MONETMy work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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