Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
CLAUDE MONETI am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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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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I’m knocked out, I’ve never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I’m quite stupid with it and long only for bed; but I am happy.
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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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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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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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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 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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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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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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I’ve been working so hard that I’m exhausted… I feel I won’t be able to do without a few weeks’ rest, so I’m going off to see the sea.
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