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When I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.

Claude Monet

I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
CLAUDE MONET

Education Home Myself Work
I’ve done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don’t want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that’s enough.
CLAUDE MONET

Enough Myself Paint Painting Sufficient
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
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
My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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Eyes Learning Myself Nature Open Time Understand
I never draw except with brush and paint.
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Artist Brush Draw Exception Myself Paint
The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.
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Direct Effect Impression Nature Paint
One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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Myself See Sight Understand
I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint
The real subject of every painting is light.
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Light Painting Reality Subject
Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I’m exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I’ve set out to do.
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End Evening Forget Myself Responsibility Work
Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
CLAUDE MONET

Art Force Nature Sensitive Stay Technique
Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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Greatness Myself Thankful
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
One day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.
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Advice Draw Learning Light Oneself Sea
I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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Deep Depression Disgust Paint Tortue

When I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.

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When I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.

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