I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
CLAUDE MONETAll I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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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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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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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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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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I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
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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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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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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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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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