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I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.

Claude Monet

All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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Enchanting Myself Reveal
These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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Obsession Reflection Water
One’s better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one’s own. In fact it’s a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
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Alone Better Business Hard Impossible Oneself
Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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Greatness Myself Thankful
My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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Eyes Learning Myself Nature Open Time Understand
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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Advice Draw Learning Light Oneself Sea
Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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Discover Listening Myself
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
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Artist Composition Head Oneself Painting Photograph
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
The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.
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Direct Effect Impression Nature Paint
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
When I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.
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Feeling Forget Nature Oneself Paint
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Myself Paint
I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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Artist Bird Myself Paint Sing Way
My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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Beautiful Garden Masterpiece Myself
To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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Forget Name Philosophy See Sight

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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