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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Claude Monet

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.
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Appearance Chocolate Doctrine Official Photograph
I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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Fire Myself Planning
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
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
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.
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Growth Happiness Myself Paint Time Understand Water
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
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
I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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Future Myself Sleep
Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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Enough Life Myself Paint Time
Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it’s enchanting, it’s delicious, and I hope it will please you.
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Bold Delicious Enchanting Feeling Hope Nature Yourself
I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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Impression Myself Oneself Remember
Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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Myself People Slow Speed Thinking
Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint
The real subject of every painting is light.
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Light Painting Reality Subject
The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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Achievement Inspirational Myself Nature Rich Source
I can only draw what I see.
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Draw Myself See

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

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