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My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.

Claude Monet

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Myself Paint
When I work I forget all the rest.
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Forget Myself Paint Understand Work
My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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Alone Art Better Impression Myself Work
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Myself Nature Paint
These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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Obsession Reflection Water
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
I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
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Despair God Mistake Myself Sensation
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
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
For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
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Appearance Change Existence Moments Myself Right
I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.
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Existence Experience Nature Paint Rule Success
Light is the most important person in the picture.
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Important Light Person Photograph
I’m in a foul mood as I’m making stupid mistakes… This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away… what a rage I was in!
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Decision Happiness Myself Rage Session Stupidity
Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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Color Myself Pursue Sleep Worry
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
I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
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Education Home Myself Work

My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.

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