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.
CLAUDE MONET
These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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I’ve been working so hard that I’m exhausted… I feel I won’t be able to do without a few weeks’ rest, so I’m going off to see the sea.
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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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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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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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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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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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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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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 perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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The effect of sincerity is to give one’s work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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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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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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