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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

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

No one but myself knows the a...

No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.

Claude Monet 171 quotes

Light is the most important p...

Light is the most important person in the picture.

Claude Monet 171 quotes

Most people think I paint fas...

Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.

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It was at home I learned the ...

It was at home I learned the little I know. Schools always appeared to me like a prison, and never could I make up my mind to stay there, not even for four hours a day, when the sunshine was inviting, the sea smooth, and when it was joy to run about the cliffs in the free air, or to paddle in the water.

Claude Monet 171 quotes

Techniques vary, art stays th...

Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.

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

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

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.

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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.

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I'm working hard with more de...

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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What can be said about a man ...

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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By the single example of this...

By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to me.

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What is it that's taken hold ...

What is it that's taken hold of me, for me to carry on like this in relentless pursuit of something beyond my powers?

Claude Monet 171 quotes

Now, more than ever, I realiz...

Now, more than ever, I realize just how illusory my undeserved success has been. I still hold out some hope of doing better, but age and unhappiness have sapped my strength.

Claude Monet 171 quotes

I'm not lacking for enthusias...

I'm not lacking for enthusiasm as you can see, given that I have something like 65 canvases covered with paint and I'll be needing more since the place is quite out of the ordinary; so I'm going to order some more canvases.

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It goes without saying that I...

It goes without saying that I will do anything at any price to pull myself out of a situation like this [rejection] so that I can start work immediately on my next Salon picture and ensure that such a thing should not happen again.

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