Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
CLAUDE MONETI 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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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I haven’t many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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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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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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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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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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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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If only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
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