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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.

Claude Monet

Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.
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Art Deal Depression Interest Love Market Modesty Myself Price Value
Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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Myself People Slow Speed Thinking
It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
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Attention Catch Dare Easy Myself People
One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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Myself See Sight Understand
Light is the most important person in the picture.
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Important Light Person Photograph
I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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Fire Myself Planning
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
Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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Discover Listening Myself
My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Heart Myself
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Myself Paint
I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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Desire Fire Myself Paint
Lots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.
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Bad Mindset Myself People Reality
To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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Forget Name Philosophy See Sight
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
It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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Alone Hard Oneself Satisfaction
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

To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.

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