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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

I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
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Advice Afraid Artist Myself Paint Young
What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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Color Myself Need
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Myself Nature Paint
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
I’ve said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.
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Fascination Myself Product Repeat Success
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
A good impression is lost so quickly.
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Goodness Impression Lost Quick
Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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Color Myself Pursue Sleep Worry
Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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Children Myself Rule
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
I haven’t many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.
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Achievement Devotion Myself Paint Possible Satisfaction Time
It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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Action Better Myself Reputation
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
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
I’ve only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.
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Blame Chance Goodness Impotent Myself Weakness Work
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

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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