Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
CLAUDE MONETThe point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all’s said and done, a matter of habit.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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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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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.
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The real subject of every painting is light.
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I’m exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I’ve set out to do.
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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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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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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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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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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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When I work I forget all the rest.
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