I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
CLAUDE MONETColor is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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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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Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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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 am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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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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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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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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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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