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

Claude Monet

All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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Enchanting Myself Reveal
Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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Myself People Slow Speed Thinking
I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint
My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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Beautiful Garden Masterpiece Myself
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
The real subject of every painting is light.
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Light Painting Reality Subject
Lots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
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Bad Mindset Myself People Reality
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.
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Blame Chance Goodness Impotent Myself Weakness Work
Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.
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Art Deal Depression Interest Love Market Modesty Myself Price Value
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 never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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Feeling Impossible Myself Paint Power Seek
I’ve done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don’t want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that’s enough.
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Enough Myself Paint Painting Sufficient
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 would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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Artist Bird Myself Paint Sing Way
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 must have flowers, always, and always.
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Flower Myself

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

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