All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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The effect of sincerity is to give one’s work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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I can only draw what I see.
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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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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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I haven’t many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.
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Light is the most important person in the picture.
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When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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