Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
CLAUDE MONETMy garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
More Claude Monet Quotes
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It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.
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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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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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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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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 had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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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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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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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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The effect of sincerity is to give one’s work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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Everything changes, even stone.
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