These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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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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It 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.
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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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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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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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
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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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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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