Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It’s wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.
CLAUDE MONETWithout 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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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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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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
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I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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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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It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
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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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I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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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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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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