I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
CLAUDE MONETAll of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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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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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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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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I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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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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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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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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When I work I forget all the rest.
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Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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