I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
CLAUDE MONETWhat I need most of all is color, always, always.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it’s enchanting, it’s delicious, and I hope it will please you.
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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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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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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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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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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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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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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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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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