As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.
CLAUDE MONETI am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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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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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.
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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I’ve said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.
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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 had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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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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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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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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