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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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Famous Claude Monet Quotes

“It really is appallingly difficult to do something which is complete in every respect, and I think most people are content with mere approximations. Well, my dear friend, I intend to battle on, scrape off and start again.”

People Thinking Wells Difficult Battle Difficulty Mere Dear Dear Friend Approximation

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

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

“I've spent so long on some paintings that I no longer know what to think of them, and I am definitely getting harder to please; nothing satisfies me.”

Thinking Knows Long Painting Please Harder Frustration

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

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

“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.”

Thinking Direct Instinct Singers Painter Sensations Impressionism Impressionists

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“When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can't think any more.”

Ifs Thinking I Can Light Seems Dark Dying

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“I think only of my painting, and if I were to drop it, I think I'd go crazy.”

Ifs Thinking Crazy Painting Obsession

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

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

“Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I'm exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I've set out to do.”

Thinking Ends Forget Responsibility Morning Slave Evening Exhausted

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“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

“Think of me getting up before 6, I'm at work by 7 and I continue until 6.30 in the evening, standing up all the time, nine canvases. It's murderous.”

Thinking Standing Nine Evening Think Of Me

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

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

“I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.”

Thinking Kind Made Pleasure

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

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“It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.”

Thinking Water Pleasure Painting Grew Lilies Water Lily

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

People Thinking Paint

Author:Claude Monet

About the Author

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

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