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.
CLAUDE MONETAll of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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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’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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I can only draw what I see.
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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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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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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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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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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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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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 more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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