"I want the unobtainable. Other artists paint a……" — Claude Monet
"I want the unobtainable. Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat, and that's the end. They are finished. I want to paint the air which surrounds the bridge, the house, the boat, the beauty of the air in which these objects are located, and that is nothing short of impossible."
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Claude Monet
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148 Quotes by Claude Monet
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My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and…
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What could be said about me...a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his…
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I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart…
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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My garden is a slow work, pursued with love and I do not deny that I am proud of it.…
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Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to…
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What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, house, a…
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More Air Quotes
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Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the…
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -…
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On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million…
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It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then…
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Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of…
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Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.
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Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.
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I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into…
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Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.
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The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
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A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and…
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is…
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