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"13 Claude Monet Quotes & Sayings

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Born: November 14, 1840 Died: December 5, 1926 | Artist |

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

Art Understand Necessary Love
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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.

Blue Color Exact Field
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I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.

Alone Always Better Impressions
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My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.

Always Corner Living Nature
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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Able Become Being Flowers
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
Color Joy Obsession Torment
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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.

Artist Carries Composition Head
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Eventually, my eyes were opened, and I really understood nature. I learned to love at the same time.

Eventually Learned Love Nature
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I pass my time in the open air on the beach when it is really heavy weather or when the boats go out fishing.

Air Beach Boats Fishing
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It is extraordinary to see the sea; what a spectacle! She is so unfettered that one wonders whether it is possible that she again become calm.

Become Calm Extraordinary Possible
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For a long time, I have hoped for better days, but alas, today it is necessary for me to lose all hope. My poor wife suffers more and more. I do not think it is possible to be any weaker.

Necessary Poor Possible Suffers
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I do have a dream, a painting, the baths of La Grenouillere for which I've done a few bad rough sketches, but it is a dream. Renoir, who has just spent two months here, also wants to do this painting.

Bad Baths Done Dream
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I was definitely born under an evil star. I have just been thrown out of the inn where I was staying, naked as a worm.

Born Definitely Evil Naked
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Claude Monet Quotes & Sayings