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.
CLAUDE MONETWhen I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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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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Pictures aren’t made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red…But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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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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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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When I work I forget all the rest.
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
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As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.
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