black
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blue
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brown
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I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.

Claude Monet

I must have flowers, always, and always.
CLAUDE MONET

Flower Myself
Pictures aren’t made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red…But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.
CLAUDE MONET

Appearance Chocolate Doctrine Official Photograph
One day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.
CLAUDE MONET

Advice Draw Learning Light Oneself Sea
I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
CLAUDE MONET

Believe Change End Impossible Slave Weather Work
I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
CLAUDE MONET

Criticism Myself Opinion
Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
CLAUDE MONET

Myself People Slow Speed Thinking
The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
CLAUDE MONET

Achievement Inspirational Myself Nature Rich Source
A good impression is lost so quickly.
CLAUDE MONET

Goodness Impression Lost Quick
I’ve been working so hard that I’m exhausted… I feel I won’t be able to do without a few weeks’ rest, so I’m going off to see the sea.
CLAUDE MONET

Exhaustion Hard Work Myself Sea See
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Criticism Myself Period Success Word
I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
CLAUDE MONET

Desire Fire Myself Paint
I never draw except with brush and paint.
CLAUDE MONET

Artist Brush Draw Exception Myself Paint
I’m working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still.
CLAUDE MONET

Absence Better Deal Determination Hard Work Myself Paint
I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
CLAUDE MONET

Finish Myself Terrible
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
CLAUDE MONET

Joy Obsession Torment
Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
CLAUDE MONET

Children Myself Rule

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