Claude Monet Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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Golf was never a religion to me.
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I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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My wife Kris and I enjoy keeping an active lifestyle, so it's hard to imagine what it would be like if breathing problems kept me from participating in the activities I love to do. But that's exactly what happens to many people who develop COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it.
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.
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I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.
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I have a different relationship with Chucky because he's been on top of my bookshelf in the corner of my living room for my entire life. He was a great tool for scaring friends, and when I see him in different theme parks I've been to, or in commercials, my heart swells a little bit, and I'm like, 'Aww! It's my Chucky!'
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All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.
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I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was very Jetsons.
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I love working with women.
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Sometimes art is ahead of revolution.
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A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.
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In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Words are precious things meant to create, to imagine, to dream with.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
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The so-called 'discoveries' of the Impressionists could not have been unknown to the old masters; and if they made no use of them, it was because all great artists have renounced the use of effects. And in simplifying nature, they made it all the greater.
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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.
