Claude Monet Quotes
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I have once more taken up things that can't be done: water with grasses weaving on the bottom. But I'm always tackling that sort of thing!
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There are the most amusing things everywhere in The Netherlands. Houses of every colour, hundreds of windmills and enchanting boats, extremely friendly Dutchmen who almost all speak French... .I have not had time to visit the museums, I wish to work first of all and I'll treat myself to that later.
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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 continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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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 Sargent thinks. But he went on to agree that impressionists had noted how strong
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I get madder and madder on giving back what I feel.
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The older I become the more I realize of that I have to work very hard to reproduce what I search: the instantaneous. The influence of the atmosphere on the things and the light scattered throughout.
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Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.
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The real subject of every painting is light.
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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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I didn't become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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You'll understand, I'm sure that I'm chasing the merest sliver of color. It's my own fault. I want to grasp the intangible. It's terrible how the light runs out. Color, any color, lasts a second, sometimes 3 or 4 minutes at most.
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I insist upon 'doing it alone'. Much as I enjoyed making the trip there with Renoir as a tourist, I'd find it hard to work there together. I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.. .If he Renoir knew I was about to go, Renoir would doubtless want to join me and that would be equally disastrous for both of us.
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I have made tremendous efforts to work in a darker register and express the sinister and tragic quality of the place, given my natural tendency to work in light and pale tones.
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It is only too easy to catch people's attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
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I've always refused requests even from friends to employ a technique I know nothing about.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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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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I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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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 heart is forever in Giverny.
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.