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

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
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
Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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Flower Interest Myself Paint World
A good impression is lost so quickly.
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Goodness Impression Lost Quick
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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Joy Obsession Torment
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
The real subject of every painting is light.
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Light Painting Reality Subject
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
I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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Feeling Impossible Myself Paint Power Seek
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
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
My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
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Desire Fate Herself Intimacy Law Live Nature
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
If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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Appearance Myself Painting World
My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Heart Myself
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’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.

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