Claude Monet (1840–1926) French impressionist painter
Variant: Everyday I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
“Perhaps we'll be able to do beautiful things, since I have a stellar, insane desire to assassinate beauty.”
Source: Quote in Picabia's letter to Tristan Tzara, Summer 1919; as cited in TaTa Dada: The Real Life and Celestial Adventures of Tristan Tzara, Marius Hentea, MIT Press, 12 Sep 2014, p. 151
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