Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
CLAUDE MONETWithout the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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One day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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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.
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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It’s wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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