Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
CLAUDE MONETThe 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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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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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I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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I’ve said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
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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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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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