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I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.

Claude Monet

I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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Criticism Myself Opinion
What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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Color Myself Need
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
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Devotion Goodness Shame Suffering True
Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint
I can only draw what I see.
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Draw Myself See
These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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Obsession Reflection Water
Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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Flower Interest Myself Paint World
I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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Desire Fire Myself Paint
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
Lots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
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Bad Mindset Myself People Reality
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 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 am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint
I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
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Brain Group Ideas Myself Wait
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

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