black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

Claude Monet

If only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
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Hope Improvement Rain Work
Everything changes, even stone.
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Change Life One Liner Stone
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
To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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Forget Name Philosophy See Sight
Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.
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Art Deal Depression Interest Love Market Modesty Myself Price Value
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
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Artist Composition Head Oneself Painting Photograph
It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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Alone Hard Oneself Satisfaction
Lots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
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Bad Mindset Myself People Reality
Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it’s enchanting, it’s delicious, and I hope it will please you.
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Bold Delicious Enchanting Feeling Hope Nature Yourself
I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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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
I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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Criticism Myself Opinion
Perhaps it’s true that I’m very hard on myself, but that’s better than exhibiting mediocre work… too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.
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Better Hard Myself Public Satisfaction Trouble True
Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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Color Myself Pursue Sleep Worry
These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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Obsession Reflection Water
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

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