Claude Monet Quotes - Page 2

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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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• 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

  Peace, Perfect, Worry

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

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• Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

  Claude Monet

  Motivational, Art, Color

  Claude Monet (1969). “Claude Monet”

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• For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.

  Claude Monet

  Art, Alive, Want

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• I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint.

  Claude Monet

  Miracle, Paint, Performing

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• 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

  Thinking, Water Lily, Lilies

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• When I work I forget all the rest.

  Claude Monet

  Forget

  Steven Z. Levine, Claude Monet (1994). “Monet, Narcissus, and Self-Reflection: The Modernist Myth of the Self”, p.202, University of Chicago Press

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• I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.

  Claude Monet

  Two, Gardening, Painting

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• 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

  Artist, Sea, Needs

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

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• Nature won't be summoned to order and won't be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.

  Claude Monet

  Order, Waiting, Caught

  Claude Monet (1999). “Monet by himself: paintings, drawings, pastels, letters”

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• I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

  Claude Monet

  Art, Nature, Flower

  Claire Joyes, Claude Monet (1975). “Monet at Giverny”, Wh Smith Pub

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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.

  Claude Monet

  Running, Light, Color

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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.

  Claude Monet

  Light, Atmosphere, Realizing

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

  Claude Monet

  Nature, Eye, Understood

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• I had so much fire in me and so many plans.

  Claude Monet

  Fire, Burning, Plans

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

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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.

  Claude Monet

  Blue, Landscape, Tone

  "Monet by himself: paintings, drawings, pastels, letters".

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• 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

  Water, Insane, Trying

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• My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.

  Claude Monet

  Being Alone, Creativity, Impression

  Claude Monet (1983). “Claude Monet at the time of Giverny”

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• I didn't become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.

  Claude Monet

  Long, Remember, Has Beens

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• It's the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one's done.

  Claude Monet

  Loneliness, Done, Hardest

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

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• I'm continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.

  Claude Monet

  Strength, Hard Work, Discouragement

  Claude Monet (1999). “Monet by himself: paintings, drawings, pastels, letters”

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• 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

  Beautiful, Block, Fog

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• One can do something if one can see and understand it.

  Claude Monet

  Understanding, Can Do Something, Can Do

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

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• My garden is a slow work, pursued with love and I do not deny that I am proud of it. Forty years ago, when I established myself here, there was nothing but a farmhouse and a poor orchard...I bought the house and little by little I enlarged and organized it...I dug, planted weeded, myself; in the evenings the children watered.

  Claude Monet

  Children, Garden, Years

  Claire Joyes, Claude Monet (1975). “Monet at Giverny”, Wh Smith Pub

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• My heart is forever in Giverny.

  Claude Monet

  Heart, Forever, My Heart

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