I must have flowers, always, and always.
CLAUDE MONETI can only draw what I see.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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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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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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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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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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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
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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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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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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 working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still.
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When I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.
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