Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
CLAUDE MONETI don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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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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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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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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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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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.
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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.
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I can only draw what I see.
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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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One’s better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one’s own. In fact it’s a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
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The effect of sincerity is to give one’s work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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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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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’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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No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.
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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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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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It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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