Claude Monet Quotes
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Paint what you really see, not what you think you ought to see; not the object isolated as in a test tube, but the object enveloped in sunlight and atmosphere, with the blue dome of Heaven reflected in the shadows.
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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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I want the unobtainable. Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat, and that's the end. They are finished. I want to paint the air which surrounds the bridge, the house, the boat, the beauty of the air in which these objects are located, and that is nothing short of impossible.
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It's enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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It is difficult to stop in time because one gets carried away. But I have that strength; it is the only strength I have.
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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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I've got it.. .the Saint Lazare1 train-station in Paris, then. I'll show it just as the trains are starting, with smoke from the engines so thick you can hardly see a thing. It's a fascinating sight, a real dream. I'll get them the station office to delay the train for Rouen for half an hour. The light will be better then.
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The creditors are proving impossible to deal with and short of a sudden appearance on the scene of wealthy art patrons, we are going to be turned out of this dear little house where I led a simple life and was able to work so well. I do not know what will become of us.
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These landscapes of water and reflections have become an obsession. It's quite beyond my powers at my age, and yet I want to succeed in expressing what I feel.
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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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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 only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.
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For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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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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..but what a pity that I did not come here in Venice when I was younger and more adventurous.
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Once settled, I hope to produce masterpieces, because I like the countryside very much.
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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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I insist upon 'doing it alone'... I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.
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I'm quite content: although what I'm doing is far from being as I should like, I am complemented often enough all the same.
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There at the moment in Honfleur.. .Boudin and Jongkind are here; we get on marvelously. There's lots to be learned and nature begins to grow beautiful.. .I shall tell you I'm sending a flower picture to the exhibition at Rouen; there are very beautiful flowers at present.
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The sea is superb, but the cliffs don't match up to those at Fecamp. Here I'll be certain to do more boats.
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I get madder and madder on giving back what I feel.
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I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
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I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.