black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Claude Monet

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
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
My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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Alone Art Better Impression Myself Work
The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all’s said and done, a matter of habit.
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Choice Color Habit Myself
I haven’t many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.
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Achievement Devotion Myself Paint Possible Satisfaction Time
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
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
To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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Forget Name Philosophy See Sight
I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
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Advice Afraid Artist Myself Paint Young
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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Joy Obsession Torment
Light is the most important person in the picture.
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Important Light Person Photograph
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
Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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Art Force Nature Sensitive Stay Technique
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
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 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

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

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