My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
CLAUDE MONETI want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found – the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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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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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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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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Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.
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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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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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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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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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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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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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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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