black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.

Claude Monet

I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
CLAUDE MONET

Criticism Myself Opinion
It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
CLAUDE MONET

Action Better Myself Reputation
When I work I forget all the rest.
CLAUDE MONET

Forget Myself Paint Understand Work
Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
CLAUDE MONET

Color Myself Pursue Sleep Worry
I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
CLAUDE MONET

Brain Group Ideas Myself Wait
It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.
CLAUDE MONET

Growth Happiness Myself Paint Time Understand Water
For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
CLAUDE MONET

Appearance Change Existence Moments Myself Right
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Despair God Mistake Myself Sensation
I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
CLAUDE MONET

Believe Change End Impossible Slave Weather Work
Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
CLAUDE MONET

Flower Interest Myself Paint World
Pictures aren’t made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red…But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.
CLAUDE MONET

Appearance Chocolate Doctrine Official Photograph
I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
CLAUDE MONET

Finish Myself Terrible
I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
CLAUDE MONET

Feeling Impossible Myself Paint Power Seek
To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
CLAUDE MONET

Forget Name Philosophy See Sight
It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
CLAUDE MONET

Ambience Atmosphere Crazy Drive Enough
I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
CLAUDE MONET

Garden Goodness Myself Paint

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