Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
CLAUDE MONETNothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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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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For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
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I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
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I can only draw what I see.
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I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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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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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I’m exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I’ve set out to do.
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