black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.

Claude Monet

Light is the most important person in the picture.
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Important Light Person Photograph
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
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
It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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Action Better Myself Reputation
If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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Appearance Myself Painting World
Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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Discover Listening Myself
I can only draw what I see.
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Draw Myself See
Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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Flower Interest Myself Paint World
As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.
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Criticism Myself Period Success Word
I’m knocked out, I’ve never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I’m quite stupid with it and long only for bed; but I am happy.
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Bed Feeling Happiness Mental Myself
No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.
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Anxiety Myself Painting Satisfaction Trouble
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
I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It’s true that fretting never did any good.
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Devotion Goodness Shame Suffering True
Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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Myself People Slow Speed Thinking
Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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Color Myself Pursue Sleep Worry
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 waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.

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