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.
CLAUDE MONET
Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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 richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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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.
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No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.
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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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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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All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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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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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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