When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, house, a field....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 your own naive impression of the scene before you.


Monet: a retrospective (ed. 1985) - ISBN: 9780883633014

Claude Monet Quotes

When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, house, a field....Merely think, here is a little square of blue,...

When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, house, a field....Merely think, here is a little square of blue,...

When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, house, a field....Merely think, here is a little square of blue,...

When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, house, a field....Merely think, here is a little square of blue,...