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.
CLAUDE MONETIt is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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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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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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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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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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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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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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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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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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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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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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