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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 can only draw what I see.
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Draw Myself See
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
When I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.
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Feeling Forget Nature Oneself Paint
Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I’m exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I’ve set out to do.
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End Evening Forget Myself Responsibility Work
I’m enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.
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Country Enjoyment Forever Freedom Peace Perfection Tranquility Worry
Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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Enough Life Myself Paint Time
It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.
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Alone Hard Oneself Satisfaction
My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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Beautiful Garden Masterpiece Myself
I never draw except with brush and paint.
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Artist Brush Draw Exception Myself 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
Perhaps it’s true that I’m very hard on myself, but that’s better than exhibiting mediocre work… too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.
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Better Hard Myself Public Satisfaction Trouble True
Pictures aren’t made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red…But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.
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Appearance Chocolate Doctrine Official Photograph
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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Joy Obsession Torment
Light is the most important person in the picture.
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Important Light Person Photograph
I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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Artist Bird Myself Paint Sing Way
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
I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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Desire Fire Myself Paint
I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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Finish Myself Terrible
All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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Brush Myself See Sight Universe
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
I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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Criticism Myself Opinion
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 am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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Deep Depression Disgust Paint Tortue
I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
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Brain Group Ideas Myself Wait
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
One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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Myself See Sight Understand
I haven’t many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.
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Achievement Devotion Myself Paint Possible Satisfaction Time

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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