black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

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
Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Garden Happiness Learning Myself Youth
I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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Future Myself Sleep
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
Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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Children Myself Rule
I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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Miracle Myself Performance Wasted Time
Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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Greatness Myself Thankful
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
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
One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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Myself See Sight Understand
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
To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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Forget Name Philosophy See Sight
Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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Myself People Slow Speed Thinking
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
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
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

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