The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
CLAUDE MONETFor me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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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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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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As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.
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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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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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All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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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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When I work I forget all the rest.
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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