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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.

Claude Monet

It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
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Afraid Bad Courage Paint Physical Tragedy World
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Myself 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
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
I can only draw what I see.
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Draw Myself See
I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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Artist Bird Myself Paint Sing Way
All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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Brush Myself See Sight Universe
These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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Obsession Reflection Water
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
I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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Fire Myself Planning
My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Heart Myself
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
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
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’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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Feeling Impossible Myself Paint Power Seek

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