I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
CLAUDE MONETI’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
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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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The real subject of every painting is light.
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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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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Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
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I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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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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