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I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.

Claude Monet

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
A good impression is lost so quickly.
CLAUDE MONET

Goodness Impression Lost Quick
My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
CLAUDE MONET

Eyes Learning Myself Nature Open Time Understand
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
CLAUDE MONET

Artist Composition Head Oneself Painting Photograph
I must have flowers, always, and always.
CLAUDE MONET

Flower Myself
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
CLAUDE MONET

Joy Obsession Torment
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Greatness Impression Paint Question Simplicity Thinking
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
I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
CLAUDE MONET

Impression Myself Oneself Remember
It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
CLAUDE MONET

Afraid Bad Courage Paint Physical Tragedy World
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
CLAUDE MONET

Flower Myself Nature Paint
The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
CLAUDE MONET

Achievement Inspirational Myself Nature Rich Source
What I need most of all is color, always, always.
CLAUDE MONET

Color Myself Need
Light is the most important person in the picture.
CLAUDE MONET

Important Light Person Photograph
I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
CLAUDE MONET

Fire Myself Planning
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Appearance Chocolate Doctrine Official Photograph

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