I never draw except with brush and paint.
CLAUDE MONETLight is the most important person in the picture.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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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’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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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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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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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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The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all’s said and done, a matter of habit.
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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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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All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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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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I’m knocked out, I’ve never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I’m quite stupid with it and long only for bed; but I am happy.
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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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I can only draw what I see.
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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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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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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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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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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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