To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
CLAUDE MONETIf the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
More Claude Monet Quotes
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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Pictures aren’t made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red…But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.
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I’m enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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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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While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.
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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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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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When I work I forget all the rest.
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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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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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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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