All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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I’ve done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don’t want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that’s enough.
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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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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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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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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I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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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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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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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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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’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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I’ve been working so hard that I’m exhausted… I feel I won’t be able to do without a few weeks’ rest, so I’m going off to see the sea.
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