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“I had no natural gift to be anything - not an athlete, not an actor, not a writer, not a director, a painter of garden porches - not anything. So I've worked really hard, because nothing ever came easily to me.”

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Author:Paul Newman

“There is no "End" to be written, neither can you, like an architect, engrave in stone the day the garden was finished. A painter can frame his picture, a composer can notate his coda, but a garden is always on the move.”

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Book:A Gentle Plea for Chaos

Source: A Gentle Plea for Chaos

“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”

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Book:Monet at Giverny

Source: Monet at Giverny

“An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.”

“We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.”

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Author:Leonora Carrington

“Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet, was a painter with poor eyesight, and their gardens - his at Giverny in the Seine valley, hers in Surrey - had resemblance's that may have sprung from this condition. Both loved plants that foamed and frothed over walls and pergolas, spread in tides beneath trees; both saw flowers in islands of colored light - an image the normal eye captures only by squinting.”

“Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”

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Author:Claude Monet

“Monet's garden must be included with his works, because he combined the magic of an adaptation of nature with the work of a painter of light. An extension of the studio into the openair, with color tones lavishly spread out on all sides to exercise the eye with seductive vibrations, from which a feverishly aroused retina expects unquenchable joy.”

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Author:Georges Clemenceau