I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
CLAUDE MONETI’ve said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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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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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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No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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I’ve said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.
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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 richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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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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It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
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It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.
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I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
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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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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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For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
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It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
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The real subject of every painting is light.
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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 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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Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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I’m in a foul mood as I’m making stupid mistakes… This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away… what a rage I was in!
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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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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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