Want Quotes by Claude Monet

9 Want quotes by Claude Monet

Claude Monet translates wanting into visual language, even in just nine short sentences. His words echo the same attention to light and shade that define his canvases, offering a fresh perspective on what we pursue.

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I would love to do orange and lemon trees silhouetted against the blue sea, but I cannot find them the way I…

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These landscapes of water and reflections have become an obsession. It's quite beyond my powers at my age, and yet I want…

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

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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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I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found - the beauty…

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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…

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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.…

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I've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don't want to be compared…

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I do have a dream, a tableau of the bathing place of La Grenouillère, for which I've done some bad pochades (sketches),…

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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.

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When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might…

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My life has been nothing but a failure.

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

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I have once more taken up things that can't be done: water with grasses weaving on the bottom. But I'm always tackling that sort…

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

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I do have a dream, a painting, the baths of La Grenouillere for which I've done a few bad rough sketches, but it is…

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While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose...

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

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I've said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to…

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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 a woman…

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It would be a very bad idea... to exhibit even a small number of this new series, as the whole effect can only be…

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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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