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.
CLAUDE MONETNever, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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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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My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
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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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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.
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The real subject of every painting is light.
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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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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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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 want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found – the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.
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Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.
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