Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
CLAUDE MONETThe point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all’s said and done, a matter of habit.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
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It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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One’s better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one’s own. In fact it’s a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
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I’ve been working so hard that I’m exhausted… I feel I won’t be able to do without a few weeks’ rest, so I’m going off to see the sea.
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it’s enchanting, it’s delicious, and I hope it will please you.
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I’m in a foul mood as I’m making stupid mistakes… This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away… what a rage I was in!
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The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.
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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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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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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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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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Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.
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I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
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Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
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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.
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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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Lots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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