I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
CLAUDE MONETNature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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 not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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Lots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
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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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I can only draw what I see.
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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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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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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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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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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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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’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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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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