The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
CLAUDE MONETNow I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it’s enchanting, it’s delicious, and I hope it will please you.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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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 sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It’s true that fretting never did any good.
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I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found – the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.
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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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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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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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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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All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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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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Perhaps it’s true that I’m very hard on myself, but that’s better than exhibiting mediocre work… too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.
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