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.
CLAUDE MONETTechniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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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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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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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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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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Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
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It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
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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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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I’m exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I’ve set out to do.
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