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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.

Claude Monet

The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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Atmosphere Beautiful Change Light Time
It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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Action Better Myself Reputation
I never draw except with brush and paint.
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Artist Brush Draw Exception Myself Paint
Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I’m exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I’ve set out to do.
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End Evening Forget Myself Responsibility Work
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
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
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
All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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Enchanting Myself Reveal
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 good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint
I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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Desire Fire Myself Paint
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
Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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Discover Listening Myself
The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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Live Myself Regret
If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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Appearance Myself Painting World
While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.
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Add Finish Hard Work Oneself Paint Touch
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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Joy Obsession Torment
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.
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Growth Happiness Myself Paint Time Understand Water
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
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
For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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Alive Important Myself Subject
I’m working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still.
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Absence Better Deal Determination Hard Work Myself Paint
Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint
My life has been nothing but a failure.
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Failure Life Myself
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
Everything changes, even stone.
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Change Life One Liner Stone
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

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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