I never draw except with brush and paint.
CLAUDE MONETAs 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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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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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The real subject of every painting is light.
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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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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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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Now 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.
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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
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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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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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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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