Claude Monet Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Claude Monet Quotes. Let’s look at these pieces of wisdom. We definitely have something to learn from them!

1
Among the seascapes, I am doing the regattas of Le Havre with many figures on the beach and the outer harbor covered with small sails.
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2
My life has been nothing but a failure.
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3
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.
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4
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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5
I am installed in a fairylike place. I do not know where to poke my head; everything is superb, and I would like to do everything, so I use up and squander lots of color, for there are trials to be made.
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6
I pass my time in the open air on the beach when it is really heavy weather or when the boats go out fishing.
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7
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.
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8
My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.
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9
People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it’s simply necessary to love.
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10
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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11
I will do water – beautiful, blue water.
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12
Etretat is becoming more and more amazing. Now is the real moment: the beach with all its fine boats; it is superb, and I am enraged not to be more skillful in rendering all this. I would need two hands and hundreds of canvases.
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13
Eventually, my eyes were opened, and I really understood nature. I learned to love at the same time.
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14
I wear myself out and struggle with the sun. And what a sun here! It would be necessary to paint here with gold and gemstones. It is wonderful.
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15
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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16
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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17
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.
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