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Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.

Claude Monet

I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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Desire Fire Myself Paint
I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint
I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
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Believe Change End Impossible Slave Weather Work
One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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Myself See Sight Understand
It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
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Attention Catch Dare Easy Myself People
I can only draw what I see.
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Draw Myself See
I’ve only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.
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Blame Chance Goodness Impotent Myself Weakness Work
I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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Fire Myself Planning
What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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Color Myself Need
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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Flower Garden Happiness Learning Myself Youth
These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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Obsession Reflection Water
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
I’ve said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.
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Fascination Myself Product Repeat Success
I never draw except with brush and paint.
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Artist Brush Draw Exception Myself Paint
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
A good impression is lost so quickly.
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Goodness Impression Lost Quick

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