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While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.

Claude Monet

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
Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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Greatness Myself Thankful
It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
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Attention Catch Dare Easy Myself People
What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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Color Myself Need
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
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Art Discussion Love Myself Pretend Understand
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 had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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Fire Myself Planning
My life has been nothing but a failure.
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Failure Life Myself
The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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Live Myself Regret
One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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Myself See Sight Understand
My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Heart Myself
I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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Encouragement Hard Work Myself Period Strength
I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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Desire Fire Myself Paint
I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.
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Existence Experience Nature Paint Rule Success
I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Flower Forever Garden Heart Love Myself Need Time Work
I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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Impression Myself Oneself Remember

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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