Quote of Claude Monet - People discuss my art and pretend...

Biography - Claude Monet:

French painter.
Born: 1840 - Died: 1926
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

Quote

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.”
Claude Monet

Translation

(French, German)

Tout le monde discute de mon art et fait semblant de comprendre, comme s'il fallait comprendre, quand il faut simplement aimer.”
Claude Monet

Jeder diskutiert meine Kunst und gibt vor, sie zu verstehen, als ob es notwendig wäre, sie zu verstehen. Es ist nötig, sie zu lieben.”
Claude Monet

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To live means to love, but above all, to love life.”
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Love, love, all the rest is nothing.”
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
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Quotes about art:

Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.”
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My trade and art is to live.”
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The more I think about it the more I feel that there’s nothing more genuinely artistic than to love people.”
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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”
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I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'”
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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.”
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Quotes for: to understand

I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions.”
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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
Carl Gustav Jung

Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see.”
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The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.”
Richard Phillips Feynman

The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.”
André Gide

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.”
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Claude Monet also said...

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”
Claude Monet

All I did was to look at what the universe showed me.”
Claude Monet

universe

It seems to me, when I see nature, that I see it ready made, completely written — but then, try to do it!”
Claude Monet

nature

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

My life has been nothing but a failure.”
Claude Monet

life

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