I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
CLAUDE MONETThe real subject of every painting is light.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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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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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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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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I’m working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still.
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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 still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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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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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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One day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.
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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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I haven’t many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.
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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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I’ve done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don’t want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that’s enough.
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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 let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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