All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
CLAUDE MONETI waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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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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I’ve only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.
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For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
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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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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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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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