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.
CLAUDE MONETI still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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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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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
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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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My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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The effect of sincerity is to give one’s work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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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 more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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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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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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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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