I never draw except with brush and paint.
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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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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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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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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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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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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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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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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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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One day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.
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For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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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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