Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
CLAUDE MONETI want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found – the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
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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 am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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The real subject of every painting is light.
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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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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.
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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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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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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