black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

Claude Monet

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
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
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
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
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
My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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Beautiful Garden Masterpiece Myself
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
To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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Forget Name Philosophy See Sight
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
All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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Enchanting Myself Reveal
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
Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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Enough Life Myself Paint Time
Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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Color Myself Pursue Sleep Worry
If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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Appearance Myself Painting World
My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
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Desire Fate Herself Intimacy Law Live Nature
I’ve said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.
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Fascination Myself Product Repeat Success

It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

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