I must have flowers, always, and always.
CLAUDE MONETI waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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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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If only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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Perhaps it’s true that I’m very hard on myself, but that’s better than exhibiting mediocre work… too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.
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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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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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I haven’t many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.
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For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I’m exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I’ve set out to do.
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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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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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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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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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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 still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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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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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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