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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

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
If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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Appearance Myself Painting World
I’ve done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don’t want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that’s enough.
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Enough Myself Paint Painting Sufficient
Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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Discover Listening Myself
I can only draw what I see.
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Draw Myself See
Light is the most important person in the picture.
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Important Light Person Photograph
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
Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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Myself People Slow Speed Thinking
One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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Myself See Sight Understand
I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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Fire Myself Planning
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.
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Absence Better Deal Determination Hard Work Myself Paint
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
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
Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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Color Myself Pursue Sleep Worry
When I work I forget all the rest.
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Forget Myself Paint Understand Work
Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.
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Devil Live Myself Room Sleep Time
What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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Color Myself Need
Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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Enough Life Myself Paint Time
Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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Art Force Nature Sensitive Stay Technique
The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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Atmosphere Beautiful Change Light Time
Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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Children Myself Rule
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
When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
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Darkness Death Myself Thinking
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
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
The real subject of every painting is light.
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Light Painting Reality Subject
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

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