The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
CLAUDE MONETNo one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
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Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it’s enchanting, it’s delicious, and I hope it will please you.
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It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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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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Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.
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Without 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.
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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
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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 am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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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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