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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

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
I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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Feeling Impossible Myself Paint Power Seek
I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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Miracle Myself Performance Wasted Time
For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
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Appearance Change Existence Moments Myself Right
I’ve been working so hard that I’m exhausted… I feel I won’t be able to do without a few weeks’ rest, so I’m going off to see the sea.
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Exhaustion Hard Work Myself Sea See
The real subject of every painting is light.
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Light Painting Reality Subject
I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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Finish Myself Terrible
Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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Discover Listening Myself
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
One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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Myself See Sight Understand
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
Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it’s enchanting, it’s delicious, and I hope it will please you.
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Bold Delicious Enchanting Feeling Hope Nature Yourself
I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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Criticism Myself Opinion
I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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Build Earth Happiness Kind Myself Thinking
I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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Artist Bird Myself Paint Sing Way
Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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Greatness Myself Thankful

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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