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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.

Claude Monet

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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Joy Obsession Torment
I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
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Advice Afraid Artist Myself Paint Young
I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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Desire Fire Myself Paint
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Absence Better Deal Determination Hard Work Myself Paint
I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.
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Existence Experience Nature Paint Rule Success
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
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
My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Heart Myself
I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
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Despair God Mistake Myself Sensation
I never draw except with brush and paint.
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Artist Brush Draw Exception Myself Paint
As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.
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Criticism Myself Period Success Word
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
One day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.
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Advice Draw Learning Light Oneself Sea
Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It’s wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.
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Myself Paint Try Water Wonderful
Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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Art Force Nature Sensitive Stay Technique
The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.
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Direct Effect Impression Nature Paint
I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.
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Appreciation Goodness Happiness Myself Praise Time
Everything changes, even stone.
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Change Life One Liner Stone
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
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Artist Composition Head Oneself Painting Photograph
I’m knocked out, I’ve never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I’m quite stupid with it and long only for bed; but I am happy.
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Bed Feeling Happiness Mental Myself
My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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Alone Art Better Impression Myself Work
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
Perhaps it’s true that I’m very hard on myself, but that’s better than exhibiting mediocre work… too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.
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Better Hard Myself Public Satisfaction Trouble True
I can only draw what I see.
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Draw Myself See
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
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
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

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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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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