Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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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I’ve been working so hard that I’m exhausted… I feel I won’t be able to do without a few weeks’ rest, so I’m going off to see the sea.
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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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I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found – the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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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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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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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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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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Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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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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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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My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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