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Flowers Quotes by Claude Monet

8 Flowers quotes by Claude Monet

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Claude Monet’s eight short verses on flowers provide a compact view of his painterly eye for nature’s colors. The selection is modest, yet each line captures a vivid, visual impression, making it a useful reference for readers interested in his floral imagination.

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What could be said about me...a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as…

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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

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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 must have flowers, always, and always.

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“Water Lilies' is an extension of my life. Without the woter the lilies cannot live, as I am without art.”

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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 work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever…

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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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It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.

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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…

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My life has been nothing but a failure.

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Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of…

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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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All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.

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What is it that's taken hold of me, for me to carry on like this in relentless pursuit of something beyond my powers?

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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…

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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman…

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It would be a very bad idea... to exhibit even a small number of this new series, as the whole effect can only be…

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By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to me.

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It would be asking too much to want to sell only to connoisseurs - that way starvation lies.

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