Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
CLAUDE MONETMy only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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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Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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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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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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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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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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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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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It’s wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it’s enchanting, it’s delicious, and I hope it will please you.
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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