I can only draw what I see.
CLAUDE MONET
When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I can only draw what I see.
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Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.
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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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If only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
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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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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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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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All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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Lots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
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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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My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
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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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I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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