I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
CLAUDE MONETEvery 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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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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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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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If only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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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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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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I’m knocked out, I’ve never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I’m quite stupid with it and long only for bed; but I am happy.
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I can only draw what I see.
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