black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

When I work I forget all the rest.

Claude Monet

Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it’s enchanting, it’s delicious, and I hope it will please you.
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Bold Delicious Enchanting Feeling Hope Nature Yourself
I never draw except with brush and paint.
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Artist Brush Draw Exception Myself Paint
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
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Artist Composition Head Oneself Painting Photograph
The real subject of every painting is light.
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Light Painting Reality Subject
I’ve been working so hard that I’m exhausted… I feel I won’t be able to do without a few weeks’ rest, so I’m going off to see the sea.
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Exhaustion Hard Work Myself Sea See
My life has been nothing but a failure.
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Failure Life Myself
My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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Beautiful Garden Masterpiece Myself
I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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Finish Myself Terrible
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Myself Paint
My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Heart Myself
I’ve said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.
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Fascination Myself Product Repeat Success
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
Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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Enough Life Myself Paint Time
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
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
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.
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Appearance Chocolate Doctrine Official Photograph

When I work I forget all the rest.

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