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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

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 perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Myself Paint
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
I’ve only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.
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Blame Chance Goodness Impotent Myself Weakness Work
The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all’s said and done, a matter of habit.
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Choice Color Habit Myself
The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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Atmosphere Beautiful Change Light Time
A good impression is lost so quickly.
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Goodness Impression Lost Quick
I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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Miracle Myself Performance Wasted Time
I can only draw what I see.
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Draw Myself See
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
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
The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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Live Myself Regret
It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
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Afraid Bad Courage Paint Physical Tragedy World
I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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Impression Myself Oneself Remember
The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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Achievement Inspirational Myself Nature Rich Source

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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