Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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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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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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
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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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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
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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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I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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I’ve only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.
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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’m working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still.
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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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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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