black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

One day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.

Claude Monet

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
I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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Desire Fire Myself Paint
To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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Forget Name Philosophy See Sight
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
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
I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
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Believe Change End Impossible Slave Weather Work
The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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Achievement Inspirational Myself Nature Rich Source
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 still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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Future Myself Sleep
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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Joy Obsession Torment
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
Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.
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Devil Live Myself Room Sleep Time
My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Heart Myself
The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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Live Myself Regret
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
I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.
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Appreciation Goodness Happiness Myself Praise Time

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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