I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
CLAUDE MONETI perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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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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I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It’s true that fretting never did any good.
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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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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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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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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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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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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