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Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Claude Monet

To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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Forget Name Philosophy See Sight
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.
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Choice Color Habit Myself
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.
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Greatness Impression Paint Question Simplicity Thinking
The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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Atmosphere Beautiful Change Light Time
Every day 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.
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Beautiful Day Desire Discover Head Myself
I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.
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Existence Experience Nature Paint Rule Success
Everything changes, even stone.
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Change Life One Liner Stone
I’ve done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don’t want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that’s enough.
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Enough Myself Paint Painting Sufficient
All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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Brush Myself See Sight Universe
One’s better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one’s own. In fact it’s a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
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Alone Better Business Hard Impossible Oneself
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
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
I can only draw what I see.
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Draw Myself See
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.
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Absence Better Deal Determination Hard Work Myself Paint
The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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Live Myself Regret
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

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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