Claude Monet Quotes

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• To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.

  Claude Monet

  Names, Forget

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

  Claude Monet

  Garden, Light, Atmosphere

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• Light is the most important person in the picture.

  Claude Monet

  Light, Important, Immortal Life

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  Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

  Claude Monet

  Life, Art, Mental Health

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• I must have flowers, always, and always.

  Claude Monet

  Flower, Flower Garden

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  For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.

  Claude Monet

  Life, Change, Stars

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  It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

  Claude Monet

  Artist, Reflection, Way

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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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.

  Claude Monet

  Beautiful, Mad, Desire

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• All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.

  Claude Monet

  Looks, Bears, Brushes

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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.

  Claude Monet

  Thinking, Blue, Heaven

  Claude Monet (1985). “Monet: a retrospective”

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• The real subject of every painting is light.

  Claude Monet

  Real, Light, Painting

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• It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.

  Claude Monet

  Tragedy, World, Moral

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• 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

  Art, Thinking, Squares

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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.

  Claude Monet

  Artist, Air, Bridges

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• I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

  Claude Monet

  Art, Bird, Way

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

  Claude Monet

  Artist, Long, Painting

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  Everything changes, even stone.

  Claude Monet

  Change, Stones, Things Change

  Joachim Pissarro, Claude Monet (1990). “Monet's cathedral: Rouen 1892-1894”, Pavilion Books, Limited

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• It is better to have done something than to have been someone.

  Claude Monet

  Motivational, Done, Has Beens

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• The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.

  Claude Monet

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Claude Monet (1985). “Monet: a retrospective”

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

  Claude Monet

  Light, Matter, Painting

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• Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.

  Claude Monet

  Inspiration, Listening, Instinct

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• My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

  Claude Monet

  Beautiful, Art, Garden

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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.

  Claude Monet

  Nature, Travel, Fate

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• These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.

  Claude Monet

  Reflection, Water, Landscape

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• What I need most of all is color, always, always.

  Claude Monet

  Garden, Color, Needs

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