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.
CLAUDE MONETIt 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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
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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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It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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