Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
CLAUDE MONETTechniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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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 am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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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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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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Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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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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Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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