One can do something if one can see and understand it.
CLAUDE MONETMy 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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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I can only draw what I see.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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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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Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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I’ve been working so hard that I’m exhausted… I feel I won’t be able to do without a few weeks’ rest, so I’m going off to see the sea.
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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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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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I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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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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The real subject of every painting is light.
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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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