Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
CLAUDE MONETIt is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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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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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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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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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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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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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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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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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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