My heart is forever in Giverny.
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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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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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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My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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When I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.
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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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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 am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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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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One’s better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one’s own. In fact it’s a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
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I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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