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 MONETI am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.
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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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Lots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
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It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
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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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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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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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