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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.

Claude Monet

I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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Desire Fire Myself Paint
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 didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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Impression Myself Oneself Remember
One’s better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one’s own. In fact it’s a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
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Alone Better Business Hard Impossible Oneself
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
When I work I forget all the rest.
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Forget Myself Paint Understand Work
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 say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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Finish Myself Terrible
I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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Build Earth Happiness Kind Myself Thinking
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
To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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Forget Name Philosophy See Sight
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’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
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
I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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Artist Bird Myself Paint Sing Way
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

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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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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