Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it’s enchanting, it’s delicious, and I hope it will please you.
CLAUDE MONETWhen 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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As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.
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Perhaps it’s true that I’m very hard on myself, but that’s better than exhibiting mediocre work… too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.
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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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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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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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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 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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Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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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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Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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One’s better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one’s own. In fact it’s a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
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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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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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I’ve only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.
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I’m enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.
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I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
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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 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’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 would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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