Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
CLAUDE MONETOne can do something if one can see and understand it.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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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’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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Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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I’m in a foul mood as I’m making stupid mistakes… This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away… what a rage I was in!
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No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
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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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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 richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all’s said and done, a matter of habit.
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Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.
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Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
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