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.
CLAUDE MONETIt’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it’s enchanting, it’s delicious, and I hope it will please you.
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My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
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I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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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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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.
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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 not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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One’s better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one’s own. In fact it’s a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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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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