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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.

Claude Monet

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
Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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Children Myself Rule
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 richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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Achievement Inspirational Myself Nature Rich Source
My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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Alone Art Better Impression Myself Work
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
Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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Myself People Slow Speed Thinking
Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.
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Devil Live Myself Room Sleep Time
The effect of sincerity is to give one’s work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.
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Character Convey Effect Himself Impression Sincere
I never draw except with brush and paint.
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Artist Brush Draw Exception Myself Paint
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
It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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Alone Hard Oneself Satisfaction
I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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Future Myself Sleep
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
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
These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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Obsession Reflection Water

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