Claude Monet Quotes

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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…
• What could be said about me...a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as well.
• I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
• The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
• My garden is a slow work, pursued with love and I do not deny that I am proud of it. Forty years ago, when I…
• Pictures aren't made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red...But…
• Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
• What I need most of all is color, always, always.
• Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
• When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, house, a field....Merely think, here is a…
• Lots of people will protest that it's quite unreal and that I'm out of my mind, but that's just too bad
• 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…
• For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
• Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
• It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
• I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
• Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of blue and pink: it's enchanting, it's delicious.
• I have made tremendous efforts to work in a darker register and express the sinister and tragic quality of the place, given my natural tendency…
• The Thames was all gold. God it was beautiful, so fine that I began working a frenzy, following the sun and its reflections on the…
• I know that to paint the sea really well, you need to look at it every hour of every day in the same place so…

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