Stills Quotes by Claude Monet

8 Stills quotes by Claude Monet

Claude Monet captured light and atmosphere, and in these eight short statements he turns his eye to stillness. They offer a concise, painterly glimpse of how quiet moments shape his artistic vision.

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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of…

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I'm going to get down to a still life on a size 50 canvas of rayfish and dogfish with old fishermen's baskets.…

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One day I am satisfied, the next day I find it all bad; still I hope that some day I will find…

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Now, more than ever, I realize just how illusory my undeserved success has been. I still hold out some hope of doing…

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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…

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I still don't know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.

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I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings…

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Pictures aren't made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue,…

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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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It would be asking too much to want to sell only to connoisseurs - that way starvation lies.

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