black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.

Claude Monet

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
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
If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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Appearance Myself Painting World
I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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Criticism Myself Opinion
Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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Discover Listening Myself
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’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
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
I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
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Advice Afraid Artist Myself Paint Young
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
I can only draw what I see.
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Draw Myself See
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
One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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Myself See Sight Understand
The real subject of every painting is light.
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Light Painting Reality Subject
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
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

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