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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

I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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Desire Fire Myself Paint
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
Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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Children Myself Rule
I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
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Believe Change End Impossible Slave Weather Work
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
Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It’s wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.
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Myself Paint Try Water Wonderful
I’ve said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.
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Fascination Myself Product Repeat Success
I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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Fire Myself Planning
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
What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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Color Myself Need
I’ve been working so hard that I’m exhausted… I feel I won’t be able to do without a few weeks’ rest, so I’m going off to see the sea.
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Exhaustion Hard Work Myself Sea See
Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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Enough Life Myself Paint Time
Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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Myself People Slow Speed Thinking
I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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Future Myself Sleep
My life has been nothing but a failure.
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Failure Life Myself
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

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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