I never draw except with brush and paint.
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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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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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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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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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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My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It’s wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.
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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
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I’ve said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.
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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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Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.
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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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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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