Tag: Claude Monet
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Eventually, my eyes were opened, and I really understood nature. I learned to love at the same time.
Claude Monet
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
Claude Monet
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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.
Claude Monet
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I am working, but when one has ceased to do seascape, it is the devil afterward – very difficult; it changes at every instant, and here the weather varies several times in the same day.
Claude Monet
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There, the grand lines of mountain and sea are admirable, and apart from the exotic vegetation that is here, Monte Carlo is certainly the most beautiful spot of the entire coast: the motifs there are more complete, more picturelike, and consequently easier to execute.
Claude Monet
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My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.
Claude Monet
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
Claude Monet
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I will do water – beautiful, blue water.
Claude Monet
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People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it’s simply necessary to love.
Claude Monet
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Try to forget what objects you have before you – a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, ‘Here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow,’ and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives you your own impression of the scene before you.
Claude Monet