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.
CLAUDE MONETThanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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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 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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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It’s true that fretting never did any good.
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
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I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
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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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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.
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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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