black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Claude Monet

Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It’s wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.
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Myself Paint Try Water Wonderful
I can only draw what I see.
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Draw Myself See
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
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
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
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
Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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Greatness Myself Thankful
When I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.
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Feeling Forget Nature Oneself Paint
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.
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Appearance Chocolate Doctrine Official Photograph
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
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.
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Growth Happiness Myself Paint Time Understand Water
I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
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Education Home Myself Work
I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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Finish Myself Terrible
Light is the most important person in the picture.
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Important Light Person Photograph
I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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Criticism Myself Opinion
Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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Children Myself Rule

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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