Claude Monet Quotes
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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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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 Thames was all gold. God it was beautiful, so fine that I began working a frenzy, following the sun and its reflections on the water.
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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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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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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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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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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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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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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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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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The real subject of every painting is light.
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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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I didn't become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to 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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What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can only interest himself in one thing. But I can't do any thing else. I have only one interest.
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It seems to me that when I see nature I see it ready-made, completely written - but then, try to do it!
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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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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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I can no longer work outside because of the intensity of the light.
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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 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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What is it that's taken hold of me, for me to carry on like this in relentless pursuit of something beyond my powers?