I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
CLAUDE MONETMy garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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When 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.
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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’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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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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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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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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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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Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it’s enchanting, it’s delicious, and I hope it will please you.
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For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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