I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
CLAUDE MONETOne can do something if one can see and understand it.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found – the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.
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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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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 garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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I’m knocked out, I’ve never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I’m quite stupid with it and long only for bed; but I am happy.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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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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Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.
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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.
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I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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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.
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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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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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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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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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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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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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