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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

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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Direct Effect Impression Nature Paint
Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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Children Myself Rule
I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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Desire Fire Myself Paint
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 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
It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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Ambience Atmosphere Crazy Drive Enough
To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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Forget Name Philosophy See Sight
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Myself Paint
Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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Art Force Nature Sensitive Stay Technique
As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.
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Criticism Myself Period Success Word
The real subject of every painting is light.
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Light Painting Reality Subject
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 heart is forever in Giverny.
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Heart Myself
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
The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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Live Myself Regret

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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