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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.
Claude Monet
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Claude Monet
Age: 86 †
Born: 1840
Born: November 14
Died: 1926
Died: December 5
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It goes without saying that I will do anything at any price to pull myself out of a situation like this [rejection] so that I can start work immediately on my next Salon picture and ensure that such a thing should not happen again.
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Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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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 to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism that's enough.
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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.
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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 as well forget it once you're working.
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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I have made tremendous efforts to work in a darker register and express the sinister and tragic quality of the place, given my natural tendency to work in light and pale tones.
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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 of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.
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It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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It's the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one's done.
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I'm quite content: although what I'm doing is far from being as I should like, I am complemented often enough all the same.
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