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

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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Joy Obsession Torment
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!
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Decision Happiness Myself Rage Session Stupidity
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
Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint
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
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’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
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Finding Myself Observation Reflection Strength Way
To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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Forget Name Philosophy See Sight
These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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Obsession Reflection Water
I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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Future Myself Sleep
What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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Color Myself Need
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.
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Greatness Impression Paint Question Simplicity Thinking
All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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Enchanting Myself Reveal
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
It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
CLAUDE MONET

Action Better Myself Reputation

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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