I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
CLAUDE MONETMy heart is forever in Giverny.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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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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I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.
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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 is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It’s wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.
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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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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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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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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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Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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