The real subject of every painting is light.
CLAUDE MONETI haven’t many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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I’ve done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don’t want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that’s enough.
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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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I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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I can only draw what I see.
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
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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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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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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
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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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