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It's enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
Claude Monet
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Claude Monet
Age: 86 †
Born: 1840
Born: November 14
Died: 1926
Died: December 5
Graphic Artist
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Paris
France
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Work is nearly always a torture. If I could find something else I would be much happier, because I could use this other interest as a form of relaxation. Now I cannot relax.
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It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
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Paint what you really see, not what you think you ought to see not the object isolated as in a test tube, but the object enveloped in sunlight and atmosphere, with the blue dome of Heaven reflected in the shadows.
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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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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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One is too taken up with all that one sees and hears in Paris, however strong one is, and what I do here [in Etretat] will at least have the merit of being unlike anyone else, at least I believe so, because it will simply be the expression of what I, and only I, have felt.
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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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It is difficult to stop in time because one gets carried away. But I have that strength it is the only strength I have.
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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