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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.

Claude Monet

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
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
My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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Eyes Learning Myself Nature Open Time Understand
I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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Deep Depression Disgust Paint Tortue
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
Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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Discover Listening Myself
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
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
I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found – the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.
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Beautiful Bridge Home Impossible Myself Paint
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
The effect of sincerity is to give one’s work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.
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Character Convey Effect Himself Impression Sincere
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
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
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
My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Heart Myself
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

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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