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“I must have flowers, always, and always.”
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“Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.”
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“Every day I discover
more and more
beautiful things.
It’s enough to drive one mad.
I have such a desire
to do everything,
my head is bursting with it.”
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more and more
beautiful things.
It’s enough to drive one mad.
I have such a desire
to do everything,
my head is bursting with it.”
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“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.”
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“I would like to paint the way a bird sings.”
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“My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece”
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“What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.”
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“the more I live, the more I regret how little i know”
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“It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.”
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“Everyday I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.”
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“I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint...”
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“The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration. ”
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“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”
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“No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself…”
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“I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.”
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“When you go out to paint, 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.”
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“I can only draw what I see.”
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“…Every day I discover even more beautiful things. It is intoxicating me, and I want to paint it all - my head is bursting…”
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“If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!”
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“I want to paint the way a bird sings.”
― Monet By Himself
― Monet By Himself
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding
atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.”
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atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.”
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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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“I get madder and madder on giving back what I feel.”
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“Impression — I was certain of it. I was just telling myself that, since I was impressed, there had to be some impression in it … and what freedom, what ease of workmanship! Wallpaper in its embryonic state is more finished than that seascape.”
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“The further I get, the more I regret how little I know…”
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“I must have flowers. Always and always.”
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“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers”
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“To see, we must forget the name of the things we are looking at”
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“The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.”
― Monet By Himself
― Monet By Himself
“The essence of the motif is the mirror of water, whose appearance alters at every moment.”
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