I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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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The real subject of every painting is light.
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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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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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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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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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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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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 had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.
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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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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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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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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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