I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
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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Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.
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I’m in a foul mood as I’m making stupid mistakes… This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away… what a rage I was in!
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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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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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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.
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I’ve done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don’t want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that’s enough.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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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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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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