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

~Claude Monet

Topics: Always Corner Like Living Nature Quietly Stay Wish

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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

Topics: Before Blue Color Exact Field Forget Gives Here House Impression Just Little Looks Merely Objects Own Paint Pink Scene Shape Square Streak Think Tree Try Until Whatever Yellow You Your

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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

~Claude Monet

Topics: Color Joy Obsession Torment

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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.

~Claude Monet

Topics: Air Beach Boats Fishing Go Heavy My Time Open Out Pass Really Time Weather

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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

Topics: Art Discuss Love Necessary People Pretend Simply To Love Understand Were

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

~Claude Monet

Topics: Able Am Become Being Flowers Following Grasp Having Her Nature Owe Painter Perhaps Without I Am

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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.

~Claude Monet

Topics: Art Everyone Love Necessary Pretends Simply To Love Understand Were

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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.

~Claude Monet

Topics: Am Color Everything Head Know Like Lots Made Place Poke Squander Superb Trials Up Use Where Would I Am

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

~Claude Monet

Topics: Eventually Eyes Learned Love Nature Opened Really Same Same Time Time To Love Understood Were

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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

Topics: Artist Before Carries Composition He Head His Method Painting Picture Sure Unless

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Artist

Born: November 14th, 1840

Died: December 5th, 1926

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