black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

Claude Monet

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
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
It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
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Finding Myself Observation Reflection Strength Way
I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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Artist Bird Myself Paint Sing Way
If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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Appearance Myself Painting World
When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
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Darkness Death Myself Thinking
When I work I forget all the rest.
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Forget Myself Paint Understand Work
Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint
It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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Ambience Atmosphere Crazy Drive Enough
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.
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Enough Myself Paint Painting Sufficient
Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it’s enchanting, it’s delicious, and I hope it will please you.
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Bold Delicious Enchanting Feeling Hope Nature Yourself
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
Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
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Beautiful Day Desire Discover Head Myself
My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Heart Myself
All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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Enchanting Myself Reveal
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

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