black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Claude Monet

Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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Enough Life Myself Paint Time
Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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Greatness Myself Thankful
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
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
Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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Discover Listening Myself
My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Heart Myself
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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Joy Obsession Torment
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 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
These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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Obsession Reflection Water
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
I’m working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still.
CLAUDE MONET

Absence Better Deal Determination Hard Work Myself Paint
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
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Character Convey Effect Himself Impression Sincere
It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.
CLAUDE MONET

Growth Happiness Myself Paint Time Understand Water
I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.
CLAUDE MONET

Appreciation Goodness Happiness Myself Praise Time

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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