I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
CLAUDE MONETOne day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Pictures aren’t made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red…But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.
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I’ve only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.
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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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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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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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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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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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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’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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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’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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I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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