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All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.

Claude Monet

The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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Live Myself Regret
My life has been nothing but a failure.
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Failure Life Myself
When I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.
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Feeling Forget Nature Oneself Paint
Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint
I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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Miracle Myself Performance Wasted Time
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
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
I can only draw what I see.
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Draw Myself See
Light is the most important person in the picture.
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Important Light Person Photograph
It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
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Afraid Bad Courage Paint Physical Tragedy World
I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.
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Appreciation Goodness Happiness Myself Praise Time
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
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
I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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Fire Myself Planning
The effect of sincerity is to give one’s work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.
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Character Convey Effect Himself Impression Sincere
All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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Enchanting Myself Reveal

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