Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
CLAUDE MONETMost people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.
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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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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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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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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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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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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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I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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