Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
CLAUDE MONET
My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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I’m working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still.
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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.
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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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Perhaps it’s true that I’m very hard on myself, but that’s better than exhibiting mediocre work… too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.
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I’m enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.
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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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Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
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The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all’s said and done, a matter of habit.
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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I’m exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I’ve set out to do.
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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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