It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
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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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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Without 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.
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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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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.
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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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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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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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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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