black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

Claude Monet

The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all’s said and done, a matter of habit.
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Choice Color Habit Myself
The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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Live Myself Regret
I never draw except with brush and paint.
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Artist Brush Draw Exception Myself Paint
I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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Criticism Myself Opinion
I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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Artist Bird Myself Paint Sing Way
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
Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Garden Happiness Learning Myself Youth
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’ve been working so hard that I’m exhausted… I feel I won’t be able to do without a few weeks’ rest, so I’m going off to see the sea.
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Exhaustion Hard Work Myself Sea See
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
I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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Encouragement Hard Work Myself Period Strength
No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.
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Anxiety Myself Painting Satisfaction Trouble
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
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 am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint
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

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

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