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

Claude Monet

Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
CLAUDE MONET

Catch Nature Order
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
I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint
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
It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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Action Better Myself Reputation
One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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Myself See Sight Understand
If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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Appearance Myself Painting World
I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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Criticism Myself Opinion
I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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Future Myself Sleep
It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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Alone Hard Oneself Satisfaction
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
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
The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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Atmosphere Beautiful Change Light Time
When I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.
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Feeling Forget Nature Oneself Paint
To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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Forget Name Philosophy See Sight
The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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Live Myself Regret

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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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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