Claude Monet Quotes

For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.

Claude Monet

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• You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Reality
  • Blind
  • Patriotism

• So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Great
  • Future

• People say that this new generation is so used to the Internet that their heads are already different. They can't read a book from beginning to end. That is not a tragedy. The book changes form.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Different
  • Book

• Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Nature
  • Beautiful
  • Joy

• It shows how from very, very dark circumstances -- and we've had to deal with terrorism year after year after year which has killed hundreds of people -- it is possible to see the light, provide the process to keep going and achieve results.

  

  Jack Straw
  • People
  • Light
  • Dark

• The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been requested to assist in the investigation of reported sightings of flying disks.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Flying

• When any living thing has come to the end of its cycle, we accept that end as natural. When that intangible cycle has run its course it is a natural and not unhappy thing that a life comes to its end.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Life

• A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • World
  • Long

• We like to pile language on language. Hunter [ S. Thompson] was an influence on me, no doubt about it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Doubt
  • Language
  • Hunters

• Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. You may fancy yourself safe and think yourself strong. But a chance tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgotten poem that you had come across again, a cadence from a piece of music that you had ceased to play... I tell you, that it is on things like these that our lives depend.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Memories
  • Dreams

• Do you know what I think, Potter?' said Snape, very quietly. "I think that you are a liar and a cheat and that you deserve detention with me every Saturday until the end of term. What do you think, Potter?

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Thinking
  • Saturday
  • Liar

• It was as though they had been plunged into a fabulous dream. This, thought Harry, was surely the only way to travel - past swirls and turrets of snowy cloud, in a car full of hot, bright sunlight, with a fat pack of toffees in the glove compartment.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Dream
  • Past
  • Car

• My family was totally non-religious. There was no question we were Jewish, but we were not observant.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Family
  • Question
  • Religious

• For instance, this new idea that You-Know-Who can kill with a single glance from his eyes. That’s a basilisk, listeners. One simple test: Check whether the thing that’s glaring at you has got legs. If it has, it’s safe to look into its eyes, although if it really is You-Know-Who, that’s still likely to be the last thing you ever do.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Single
  • Eyes
  • Simple

• There are two strains, I think, in American playwriting, of importance. One is traditional narrative realism, which is definitely my strain, and then the other great contribution is American musical theater, which is a whole other kettle of fish.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • American

• The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.

  

  Aristotle
  • Things
  • Principles
  • Mathematics

• The importance of a problem should not be judged by the number of pages devoted to it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Problem
  • Importance
  • Judged

• Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • World
  • Dreamer
  • Infinity

• For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Importance
  • Subject
  • Convey