black
grey
blue
red
brown
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I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found – the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.

Claude Monet

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
CLAUDE MONET

Flower Myself Nature Paint
What I need most of all is color, always, always.
CLAUDE MONET

Color Myself Need
I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
CLAUDE MONET

Flower Forever Garden Heart Love Myself Need Time Work
I never draw except with brush and paint.
CLAUDE MONET

Artist Brush Draw Exception Myself Paint
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Blame Chance Goodness Impotent Myself Weakness Work
All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
CLAUDE MONET

Enchanting Myself Reveal
I can only draw what I see.
CLAUDE MONET

Draw Myself See
I’m in a foul mood as I’m making stupid mistakes… This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away… what a rage I was in!
CLAUDE MONET

Decision Happiness Myself Rage Session Stupidity
Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
CLAUDE MONET

Myself People Slow Speed Thinking
Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
CLAUDE MONET

Garden Goodness Myself Paint
All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
CLAUDE MONET

Brush Myself See Sight Universe
Lots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
CLAUDE MONET

Bad Mindset Myself People Reality
I’m knocked out, I’ve never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I’m quite stupid with it and long only for bed; but I am happy.
CLAUDE MONET

Bed Feeling Happiness Mental Myself
I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
CLAUDE MONET

Future Myself Sleep
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Greatness Impression Paint Question Simplicity Thinking
If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
CLAUDE MONET

Appearance Myself Painting World

I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found – the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.

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I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found – the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.

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