black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The real subject of every painting is light.

Claude Monet

The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
CLAUDE MONET

Atmosphere Beautiful Change Light Time
It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.
CLAUDE MONET

Growth Happiness Myself Paint Time Understand Water
Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
CLAUDE MONET

Enough Life Myself Paint Time
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
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
CLAUDE MONET

Joy Obsession Torment
Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
CLAUDE MONET

Catch Nature Order
Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
CLAUDE MONET

Flower Interest Myself Paint World
One can do something if one can see and understand it.
CLAUDE MONET

Myself See Sight Understand
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
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Existence Experience Nature Paint Rule Success
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
As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.
CLAUDE MONET

Criticism Myself Period Success Word
Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
CLAUDE MONET

Color Myself Pursue Sleep Worry
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
When I work I forget all the rest.
CLAUDE MONET

Forget Myself Paint Understand Work
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Choice Color Habit Myself

The real subject of every painting is light.

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