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Claude Monet was a French painter known for his Impressionist style. His works are renowned for capturing the play of light and color, particularly in landscapes, with a focus on water and light effects. Monet's paintings have had a profound impact on the development of modern art.

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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.”

Trying Looks Enough Water Clear Wonderful Paint Bottom Insane Grass Application Clear Water

Author:Claude Monet

“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, Manet took me aside and whispered, 'You're on very good terms with Renoir and take an interest in his future - do advise him to give up painting! You can see for yourself that it's not his metier at all.”

Giving Children Wanted Term Interest Wife Painting One Day Giving Up Paint Very Good My Wife Canvas Advise Renoir

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“I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.”

Desire Fine Paint

Author:Claude Monet

“I never draw except with brush and paint.”

Draws Paint Drawing Brushes

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“I'm not lacking for enthusiasm as you can see, given that I have something like 65 canvases covered with paint and I'll be needing more since the place is quite out of the ordinary; so I'm going to order some more canvases.”

Order Given Ordinary Paint Enthusiasm Covered Lacking

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“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.”

Ifs Feels Wells Looks Might Able Nature Forget Down And Notes Paint Forget It

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“Paint what you really see, not what you think you ought to see; not the object isolated as in a test tube, but the object enveloped in sunlight and atmosphere, with the blue dome of Heaven reflected in the shadows.”

Thinking Heaven Objects Ought Shadow Tests Blue Paint Atmosphere Isolated Sunlight Tubes Domes

Book:Monet: a retrospective

Source: Monet: a retrospective

“I do have a dream, a tableau of the bathing place of La Grenouillère, for which I've done some bad pochades (sketches), but it is a dream. Renoir, who have just spent a couple of months here, also wants to paint this subject.”

Want Done Dream Subjects Months Couple Paint Bathing Renoir Tableau

Author:Claude Monet

“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.”

Want Found House Impossible Air Paint Boat Bridges

Book:Monet: Nature Into Art

Source: Monet: Nature Into Art

“If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!”

Ifs World Looks Paint

Author:Claude Monet

“I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint.”

Miracle Paint Performing

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“I would like to paint the way a bird sings.”

Way Art Artist Bird Paint

Author:Claude Monet

“When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, house, a field....Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives your own naive impression of the scene before you.”

Thinking Giving Trying Looks Littles Art House Forget Tree Fields Objects Color Scene Shapes Blue Paint Impression Squares Yellow Naive Streaks

Author:Claude Monet

“I know that to paint the sea really well, you need to look at it every hour of every day in the same place so that you can understand its way in that particular spot; and that is why I am working on the same motifs over and over again, four or six times even.”

Knows Way Needs Wells Looks Artist Hours Four Sea Particular Six Paint Spots Motifs

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“I see less and less... I need to avoid lateral light, which darkens my colors. Nevertheless, I always paint at the times of day most propitious for me, as long as my paint tubes and brushes are not mixed up... I will paint almost blind, as Beethoven composed completely deaf.”

Needs Long Light Color Blind Paint Nevertheless Brushes Deaf Tubes Time Of Day

Author:Claude Monet

“Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.”

People Thinking Paint

Author:Claude Monet

“Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.”

Enough Lifetime Paint

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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 to paint the air which surrounds the bridge, the house, the boat, the beauty of the air in which these objects are located, and that is nothing short of impossible.”

Want Ends Artist House Impossible Air Objects Paint Finished Boat Bridges Surround

Author:Claude Monet

“I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.”

Long Young Artist Painting Paint Advise Being Afraid Young Artists

Author:Claude Monet

About the Author

Born: November 14, 1840
Died: December 5, 1926
Known for: Painter
Quotes: 169

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