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.
CLAUDE MONETThe richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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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 say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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One’s better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one’s own. In fact it’s a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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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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I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
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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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It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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Everything changes, even stone.
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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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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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