black
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I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.

Claude Monet

I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
CLAUDE MONET

Feeling Impossible Myself Paint Power Seek
If only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
CLAUDE MONET

Hope Improvement Rain Work
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
These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
CLAUDE MONET

Obsession Reflection Water
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
CLAUDE MONET

Flower Myself Paint
All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
CLAUDE MONET

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

Finding Myself Observation Reflection Strength Way
When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
CLAUDE MONET

Darkness Death Myself Thinking
I never draw except with brush and paint.
CLAUDE MONET

Artist Brush Draw Exception Myself Paint
I’m enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.
CLAUDE MONET

Country Enjoyment Forever Freedom Peace Perfection Tranquility Worry
I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
CLAUDE MONET

Artist Bird Myself Paint Sing Way
A good impression is lost so quickly.
CLAUDE MONET

Goodness Impression Lost Quick
I’m in a foul mood as I’m making stupid mistakes… This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away… what a rage I was in!
CLAUDE MONET

Decision Happiness Myself Rage Session Stupidity
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Choice Color Habit Myself
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
My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
CLAUDE MONET

Eyes Learning Myself Nature Open Time Understand

I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.

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