I can only draw what I see.
CLAUDE MONETI never draw except with brush and paint.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I’m exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I’ve set out to do.
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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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 would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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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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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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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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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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The real subject of every painting is light.
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I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It’s true that fretting never did any good.
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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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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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