The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
CLAUDE MONETMost people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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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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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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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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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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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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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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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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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 work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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