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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
Claude Monet
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Claude Monet
Age: 86 †
Born: 1840
Born: November 14
Died: 1926
Died: December 5
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Work is nearly always a torture. If I could find something else I would be much happier, because I could use this other interest as a form of relaxation. Now I cannot relax.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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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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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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Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.
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I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
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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'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all's said and done, a matter of habit.
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can only interest himself in one thing. But I can't do any thing else. I have only one interest.
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Techniques vary, art stays the same it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.
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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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What could be said about me...a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as well.
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It is difficult to stop in time because one gets carried away. But I have that strength it is the only strength I have.
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Now, more than ever, I realize just how illusory my undeserved success has been. I still hold out some hope of doing better, but age and unhappiness have sapped my strength.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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If only the weather would improve, there'd be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
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Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.
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