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.
CLAUDE MONETMy heart is forever in Giverny.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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I’m working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still.
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I’m enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.
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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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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
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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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All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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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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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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