Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
CLAUDE MONETEveryone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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The 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.
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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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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No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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I’ve done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don’t want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that’s enough.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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Now 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.
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Lots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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