One can do something if one can see and understand it.
CLAUDE MONETThe more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.
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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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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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All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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Lots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
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I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It’s true that fretting never did any good.
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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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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 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 waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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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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