I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
CLAUDE MONETThe point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all’s said and done, a matter of habit.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
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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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I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
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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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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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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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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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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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For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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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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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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The effect of sincerity is to give one’s work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.
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