I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
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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Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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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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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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I’ve been working so hard that I’m exhausted… I feel I won’t be able to do without a few weeks’ rest, so I’m going off to see the sea.
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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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The real subject of every painting is light.
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