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.
CLAUDE MONETNow 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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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I haven’t many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.
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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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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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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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When I work I forget all the rest.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
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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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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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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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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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One’s better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one’s own. In fact it’s a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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