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

Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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Color Myself Pursue Sleep Worry
It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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Action Better Myself Reputation
I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint
For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
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Appearance Change Existence Moments Myself Right
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
I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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Artist Bird Myself Paint Sing Way
My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Heart Myself
I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
CLAUDE MONET

Advice Afraid Artist Myself Paint Young
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
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
My life has been nothing but a failure.
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Failure Life Myself
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
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
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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Joy Obsession Torment
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
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

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