All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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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Perhaps it’s true that I’m very hard on myself, but that’s better than exhibiting mediocre work… too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.
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The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all’s said and done, a matter of habit.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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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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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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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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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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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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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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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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