black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

If only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.

Claude Monet

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
My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Heart Myself
Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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Color Myself Pursue Sleep Worry
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
Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint
Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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Greatness Myself Thankful
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
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Art Discussion Love Myself Pretend Understand
I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found – the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.
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Beautiful Bridge Home Impossible Myself Paint
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Myself Paint
I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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Criticism Myself Opinion
I’m enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.
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Country Enjoyment Forever Freedom Peace Perfection Tranquility Worry
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
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.
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Criticism Myself Period Success Word
Everything changes, even stone.
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Change Life One Liner Stone
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
It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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Ambience Atmosphere Crazy Drive Enough

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