Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
CLAUDE MONETIt 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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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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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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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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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The real subject of every painting is light.
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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If only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
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I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
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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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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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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 can only draw what I see.
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