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It is only too easy to catch ...

It is only too easy to catch people's attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.

Claude Monet 171 quotes

I work at my garden all the t...

I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.

Claude Monet 171 quotes

I would like to paint the way...

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

Claude Monet 171 quotes

I see less and less... I need...

I see less and less... I need to avoid lateral light, which darkens my colors. Nevertheless, I always paint at the times of day most propitious for me, as long as my paint tubes and brushes are not mixed up... I will paint almost blind, as Beethoven composed completely deaf.

Claude Monet 171 quotes

When you go out to paint, try...

When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, house, a field....Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives your own naive impression of the scene before you.

Claude Monet 171 quotes

Paint what you really see, no...

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.

Claude Monet 171 quotes

The light constantly changes,...

The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.

Claude Monet 171 quotes

You'll understand, I'm sure t...

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.

Claude Monet 171 quotes

Critic asks: 'And what, sir, ...

Critic asks: 'And what, sir, is the subject matter of that painting?' - 'The subject matter, my dear good fellow, is the light.

Claude Monet 171 quotes

I'm enjoying the most perfect...

I'm enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.

Claude Monet 171 quotes

Without the fog, London would...

Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude...its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.

Claude Monet 171 quotes

All of a sudden I had the rev...

All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.

Claude Monet 171 quotes

It took me time to understand...

It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.

Claude Monet 171 quotes

I know that to paint the sea ...

I know that to paint the sea really well, you need to look at it every hour of every day in the same place so that you can understand its way in that particular spot; and that is why I am working on the same motifs over and over again, four or six times even.

Claude Monet 171 quotes

Pictures aren't made out of d...

Pictures aren't made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red...But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.

Claude Monet 171 quotes

My aim is to give you only th...

My aim is to give you only the things with which I am completely satisfied, even if it means asking you a little more [time] for them... for if I were to do otherwise I'd turn into a mere painting machine and you would be landed with a pile of incomplete work which would put off the most enthusiastic of art collectors.

Claude Monet 171 quotes

I would advise young artists ...

I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.

Claude Monet 171 quotes

My eyes were finally opened a...

My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.

Claude Monet 171 quotes

The older I become the more I...

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.

Claude Monet 171 quotes

Take clear water with grass w...

Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It's wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.

Claude Monet 171 quotes

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