Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
CLAUDE MONETI never draw except with brush and paint.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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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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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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I can only draw what I see.
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For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It’s wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.
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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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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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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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