I’ve said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.
CLAUDE MONETI’ve said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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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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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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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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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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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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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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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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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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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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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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