Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
CLAUDE MONETLots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
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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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Everything changes, even stone.
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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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One day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.
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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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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.
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I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It’s true that fretting never did any good.
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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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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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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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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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