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I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.

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
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
One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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Myself See Sight Understand
I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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Impression Myself Oneself Remember
My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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Alone Art Better Impression Myself Work
Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
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Beautiful Day Desire Discover Head Myself
I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It’s true that fretting never did any good.
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Devotion Goodness Shame Suffering True
I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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Miracle Myself Performance Wasted Time
I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
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Despair God Mistake Myself Sensation
Light is the most important person in the picture.
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Important Light Person Photograph
The effect of sincerity is to give one’s work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.
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Character Convey Effect Himself Impression Sincere
Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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Myself People Slow Speed Thinking
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
Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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Enough Life Myself Paint Time
Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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Color Myself Pursue Sleep Worry
Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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Art Force Nature Sensitive Stay Technique

I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.

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