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One Quotes by Claude Monet
- The effect of sincerity is to give one's work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks…
- I didn't become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
- One day I am satisfied, the next day I find it all bad; still I hope that some day I will find some of them…
- 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 who…
- One day Boudin said to me, 'Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.' I took his advice.
- 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…
- 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…
- Manet wanted one day to paint my wife and children. Renoir was there. He took a canvas and began painting them, too. After a while,…
- It is difficult to stop in time because one gets carried away. But I have that strength; it is the only strength I have.
- While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose...
- 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…
- It's the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one's done.
- One's better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one's own. In fact it's a terrible business…
- One can do something if one can see and understand it...
- One is too taken up with all that one sees and hears in Paris, however strong one is, and what I do here [in Etretat]…
- No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
- It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
- 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…
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