All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
CLAUDE MONETNever, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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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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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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One’s better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one’s own. In fact it’s a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
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I’ve only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.
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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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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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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 never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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