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Claude Monet quotes - the artist on his landscape-painting art & life and Impressionism in France - free resource for students, pupils, art-lovers and teachers in French art history

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Claude Monet’s quotes give many daily life expressions of a French painter, painting in open-air. He describes how he was trying to catch the moment of moving Nature, especially in the changing light. Like how he was waiting with great despair on the beach along a wild sea near Le Havre or Etretat (Normandy) in France, for only a short break that the wind stops blowing away his canvas on the easel.

Monet describes the French locations where he frequently painted, and the way he used his colors to create atmosphere. He wanted to catch the impression of the moment itself - in color, light and atmosphere. So he worked on five or even eight paintings on the same time, place and day. Just changing them with the weather. Monet refers also to his painter-trips through France and Italy, with his artist-friends and art-teachers as Boudin, Jongkind, Renoir, and Bazille.
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Some selected quotes of the French artist Claude Monet - as a short introduction of his extended quotes in the PDF:

  • ’It is beautiful here (Etretat, Normandy), my friend… …It is intoxicating me, and I want to paint it all - my head is bursting… …I want to fight, scratch it off, start again, because I start to see and understand… …It is by observation and reflection that I discover how…’ - Monet’s quote, 1864, in a letter to his French artist-friend Bazille

  • ’I’ve got it… …the Saint Lazare (train-station in Paris, then). I’ll show it just as the trains are starting, with smoke from the engines so thick you can hardly see a thing. It’s a fascinating sight, a real dream. I’ll get them to delay the train for Rouen for half an hour. The light will be better then.’ - remark to Renoir, 1877; Renoir called him mad!

  • ’I have gone back to some things that can’t possibly be done: water, with weeds waving at the bottom. It is a wonderful sight, but it drives one to crazy to try to paint it. But that is the kind of thing I am always a tackling.’ - quote of Monet, in his letter to Geoffrey, 1890
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    selection of free art-resources on French artist Claude Monet:

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