I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
CLAUDE MONET
Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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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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I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
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I’m enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.
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While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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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 would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
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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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For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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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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One day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.
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