One day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.
CLAUDE MONETIf only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
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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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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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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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I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.
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When I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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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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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.
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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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