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.
CLAUDE MONETI’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.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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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 would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
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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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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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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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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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Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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Everything changes, even stone.
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