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I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.

Claude Monet

For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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Alive Important Myself Subject
I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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Artist Bird Myself Paint Sing Way
Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint
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
It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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Action Better Myself Reputation
My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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Alone Art Better Impression Myself Work
No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.
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Anxiety Myself Painting Satisfaction Trouble
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
While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.
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Add Finish Hard Work Oneself Paint Touch
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
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
I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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Future Myself Sleep
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
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
Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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Discover Listening Myself

I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.

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