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For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.

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
Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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Myself People Slow Speed Thinking
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
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Art Discussion Love Myself Pretend Understand
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
To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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Forget Name Philosophy See Sight
When I work I forget all the rest.
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Forget Myself Paint Understand Work
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
The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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Atmosphere Beautiful Change Light Time
Perhaps it’s true that I’m very hard on myself, but that’s better than exhibiting mediocre work… too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.
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Better Hard Myself Public Satisfaction Trouble True
Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
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Beautiful Day Desire Discover Head Myself
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
The real subject of every painting is light.
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Light Painting Reality Subject
Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.
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Devil Live Myself Room Sleep Time
A good impression is lost so quickly.
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Goodness Impression Lost Quick
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
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
I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
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Believe Change End Impossible Slave Weather Work
I’m in a foul mood as I’m making stupid mistakes… This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away… what a rage I was in!
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Decision Happiness Myself Rage Session Stupidity
These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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Obsession Reflection Water
Light is the most important person in the picture.
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Important Light Person Photograph
I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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Deep Depression Disgust Paint Tortue
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
Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint
I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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Future Myself Sleep
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
My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Heart Myself

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