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The real subject of every painting is light.

Claude Monet

I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
CLAUDE MONET

Feeling Impossible Myself Paint Power Seek
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
Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.
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Appearance Beautiful Mysterious Place Regular
A good impression is lost so quickly.
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Goodness Impression Lost Quick
I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Flower Forever Garden Heart Love Myself Need Time Work
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 want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found – the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.
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Beautiful Bridge Home Impossible Myself Paint
My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Heart Myself
The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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Live Myself Regret
Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
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Catch Nature Order
I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint
I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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Artist Bird Myself Paint Sing Way
Perhaps it’s true that I’m very hard on myself, but that’s better than exhibiting mediocre work… too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.
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Better Hard Myself Public Satisfaction Trouble True
Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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Enough Life Myself Paint Time
I never draw except with brush and paint.
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Artist Brush Draw Exception Myself Paint
Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.
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Art Deal Depression Interest Love Market Modesty Myself Price Value

The real subject of every painting is light.

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