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 MONETZaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.
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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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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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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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It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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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 still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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