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.
CLAUDE MONETThe richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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 say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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I’ve been working so hard that I’m exhausted… I feel I won’t be able to do without a few weeks’ rest, so I’m going off to see the sea.
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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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The real subject of every painting is light.
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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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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Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.
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