I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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 still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It’s true that fretting never did any good.
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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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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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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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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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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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I 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.
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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