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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Intelligence has value only in the service of love.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love, and do what you will.”
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love

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”
Augustine of Hippo

Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.”
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Where there is love there is life.”
Mahatma Gandhi

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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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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.”
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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.”
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All about art...

Quotes for: to understand:

I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions.”
Baruch Spinoza - Tractatus politicus

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.”
Richard Phillips Feynman

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.”
Mahatma Gandhi

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.”
Albert Einstein

It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.”
Soren Kierkegaard - Journals

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
Carl Gustav Jung

All for: to understand...

Claude Monet also said...

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

flower

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

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.”
Claude Monet

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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