I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
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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As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.
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When I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.
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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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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 didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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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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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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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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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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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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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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