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Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.

Claude Monet

The real subject of every painting is light.
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Light Painting Reality Subject
For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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Alive Important Myself Subject
I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It’s true that fretting never did any good.
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Devotion Goodness Shame Suffering True
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
No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.
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Anxiety Myself Painting Satisfaction Trouble
I must have flowers, always, and always.
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Flower Myself
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
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Artist Composition Head Oneself Painting Photograph
I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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Deep Depression Disgust Paint Tortue
I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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Impression Myself Oneself Remember
Light is the most important person in the picture.
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Important Light Person Photograph
Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
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Catch Nature Order
The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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Live Myself Regret
Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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Art Force Nature Sensitive Stay Technique
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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Joy Obsession Torment
Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.
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Devil Live Myself Room Sleep Time
What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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Color Myself Need

Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.

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