Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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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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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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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I haven’t many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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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 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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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.
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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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I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
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