Claude Monet quotes
5 quotations, each verified against its source and credited to the work it comes from — the wording as Claude Monet wrote or said it, not as the internet passes it around.
These landscapes of water and reflections have become an obsession. It's quite beyond my powers at my age, and yet I want to succeed in expressing what I feel.
I'm getting so slow at my work it makes me despair, but the further I get, the more I see that a lot of work has to be done in order to render what I'm looking for: 'instantaneity', the 'envelope' above all, the same light spread over everything.
I'm giving myself a hard time over it as I haven't yet managed to capture the colour of this landscape; there are moments when I'm appalled at the colours I'm having to use, I'm afraid what I'm doing is just dreadful and yet I really am understating it; the light is simply terrifying.
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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