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I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.

Claude Monet

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.
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Greatness Impression Paint Question Simplicity Thinking
If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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Appearance Myself Painting World
For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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Alive Important Myself Subject
Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Garden Happiness Learning Myself Youth
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Myself Paint
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
Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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Enough Life Myself Paint Time
Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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Myself People Slow Speed Thinking
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 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
I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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Finish Myself Terrible
It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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Ambience Atmosphere Crazy Drive Enough
I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
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Brain Group Ideas Myself Wait
I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint
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
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

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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