I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
CLAUDE MONETEverything changes, even stone.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Pictures aren’t made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red…But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.
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No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
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I’m in a foul mood as I’m making stupid mistakes… This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away… what a rage I was in!
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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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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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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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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Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
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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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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
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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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