Claude Monet Quotes

I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint.

Claude Monet

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• I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Anger
  • Paint
  • Someone

• I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Miracles

• Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Words
  • Speak
  • Paint

• In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.

  

  H. C. Bailey
  • Believe
  • You
  • Miracles

• Necessity has been a priceless spur which has helped men to perform miracles against incredible odds.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Men
  • Miracles
  • Odds

• Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • Paint
  • Before

• I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

  

  Man Ray
  • Wish
  • Existence
  • Paint

• I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Running
  • Paint
  • Drive

• It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Me
  • Child
  • Paint

• Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Feeling
  • Me
  • Miracle

• Paint the essential character of things.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Art
  • Character
  • Paint

• I just got really into this one girl on Instagram and had her paint little pineapples on my nails during shooting.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Girl
  • Paint
  • Instagram

• Painters should shut up and paint and when we stop painting we should dance or have sex or get a massage or take a shower and we shouldn't be talking about painting.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Up
  • Stop
  • Dance

• I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Up
  • Music
  • Thinking

• God does not work by only one method, paint in only one color, play in only one key, nor does he make only one star shine onto the earth.

  

  Eberhard Arnold
  • Work
  • God
  • Earth

• Gratitude and Contentment is the greatest worker of miracles. It transforms water into wine, grains of sand into pearls, raindrops into balsam, poverty into wealth, the smallest into the greatest, the most common to the most noble, earth into paradise.

  

  Kaspar Hauser
  • Earth
  • Water
  • Poverty

• We Christian writers must paint evil with the blackest of brushes, not to sow fear, but to call out the monsters to be scattered by our light. If Satan cloaks himself as an angel of white, intent on deceiving the world, any attempt on our parts to minimize evil is only complicit with his strategy... Turn to the light; don’t fear the shadows it creates.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • World
  • Fear
  • Light

• No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Paint
  • Disenchanted

• A compassionate attitude helps you communicate more easily with your fellow human beings. As a result, you make more genuine friends and the atmosphere around you is more positive, which gives you greater inner strength. This inner strength helps you spontaneously concern yourself with others, instead of thinking only about yourself.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Thinking
  • Friends
  • Positive

• Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight; Farewell awhile to him and thee, My native land-Good Night!

  

  Lord Byron
  • Sea
  • Flight
  • Farewell

• What can books of men that wive In a dragon-guarded land, Paintings of the dolphin-drawn Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons Do, but awake a hope to live...?

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Life
  • Live
  • Art

• Sadly, a U.S. invasion of Iraq 'would threaten the whole stability of the Middle East' - or so Amr Moussa, secretary-general of the Arab League, told the BBC on Tuesday. Amr's talking points are so Sept. 10: It's supposed to destabilize the Middle East. The stability of the Middle East is unique in the non-democratic world and it's the lack of change in Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt that's turned them into a fetid swamp of terrorist bottom-feeders.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • World
  • Unique
  • League

• I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Paint
  • Miracles
  • Wasting