To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
CLAUDE MONETTake clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It’s wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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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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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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I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.
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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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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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The real subject of every painting is light.
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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I’m knocked out, I’ve never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I’m quite stupid with it and long only for bed; but I am happy.
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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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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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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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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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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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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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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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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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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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’m enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.
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