black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all’s said and done, a matter of habit.

Claude Monet

I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
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Advice Afraid Artist Myself Paint Young
Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint
I’m enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.
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Country Enjoyment Forever Freedom Peace Perfection Tranquility Worry
I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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Desire Fire Myself Paint
As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.
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Criticism Myself Period Success Word
My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Heart Myself
The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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Atmosphere Beautiful Change Light Time
Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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Greatness Myself Thankful
I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
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Brain Group Ideas Myself Wait
My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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Eyes Learning Myself Nature Open Time Understand
While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.
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Add Finish Hard Work Oneself Paint Touch
I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found – the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.
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Beautiful Bridge Home Impossible Myself Paint
I’m in a foul mood as I’m making stupid mistakes… This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away… what a rage I was in!
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Decision Happiness Myself Rage Session Stupidity
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Myself Nature Paint
I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
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Despair God Mistake Myself Sensation
I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
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Education Home Myself Work

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