I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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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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Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
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The real subject of every painting is light.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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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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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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Perhaps it’s true that I’m very hard on myself, but that’s better than exhibiting mediocre work… too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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Pictures aren’t made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red…But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.
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