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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.

Claude Monet

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
CLAUDE MONET

Artist Composition Head Oneself Painting Photograph
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
Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint
Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.
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Appearance Beautiful Mysterious Place Regular
Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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Color Myself Pursue Sleep Worry
One day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.
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Advice Draw Learning Light Oneself Sea
I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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Deep Depression Disgust Paint Tortue
These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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Obsession Reflection Water
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Myself Paint
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Absence Better Deal Determination Hard Work Myself Paint
I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
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Despair God Mistake Myself Sensation
To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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Forget Name Philosophy See Sight
I can only draw what I see.
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Draw Myself See
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
If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
CLAUDE MONET

Appearance Myself Painting World
I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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Finish Myself Terrible

I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.

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