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.
CLAUDE MONETTake 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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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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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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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Lots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
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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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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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It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
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While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.
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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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My 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.
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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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I’ve done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don’t want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that’s enough.
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