I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
CLAUDE MONETMost people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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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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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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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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For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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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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It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
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I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
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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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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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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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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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