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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.

Claude Monet

I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
CLAUDE MONET

Impression Myself Oneself Remember
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
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
CLAUDE MONET

Joy Obsession Torment
The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
CLAUDE MONET

Atmosphere Beautiful Change Light Time
Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
CLAUDE MONET

Greatness Myself Thankful
I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
CLAUDE MONET

Desire Fire Myself Paint
It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.
CLAUDE MONET

Growth Happiness Myself Paint Time Understand Water
Everything changes, even stone.
CLAUDE MONET

Change Life One Liner Stone
I must have flowers, always, and always.
CLAUDE MONET

Flower Myself
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Devotion Goodness Shame Suffering True
I’ve done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don’t want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that’s enough.
CLAUDE MONET

Enough Myself Paint Painting Sufficient
I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
CLAUDE MONET

Advice Afraid Artist Myself Paint Young
What I need most of all is color, always, always.
CLAUDE MONET

Color Myself Need
Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
CLAUDE MONET

Discover Listening Myself
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
CLAUDE MONET

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

Catch Nature Order

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