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.
CLAUDE MONETI am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
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When I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.
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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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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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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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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
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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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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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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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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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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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