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No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.
Claude Monet
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Claude Monet
Age: 86 †
Born: 1840
Born: November 14
Died: 1926
Died: December 5
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Paris
France
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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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] will at least have the merit of being unlike anyone else, at least I believe so, because it will simply be the expression of what I, and only I, have felt.
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For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
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Techniques vary, art stays the same it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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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 want them.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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It is difficult to stop in time because one gets carried away. But I have that strength it is the only strength I have.
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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It's enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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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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My aim is to give you only the things with which I am completely satisfied, even if it means asking you a little more [time] for them... for if I were to do otherwise I'd turn into a mere painting machine and you would be landed with a pile of incomplete work which would put off the most enthusiastic of art collectors.
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Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.
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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.
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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 of thing!
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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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.
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