While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.
CLAUDE MONETI’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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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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One day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.
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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 say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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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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The real subject of every painting is light.
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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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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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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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