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It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.

Claude Monet

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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Despair God Mistake Myself Sensation
Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.
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Appearance Beautiful Mysterious Place Regular
Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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Color Myself Pursue Sleep Worry
These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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Obsession Reflection Water
Light is the most important person in the picture.
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Important Light Person Photograph
I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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Criticism Myself Opinion
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
A good impression is lost so quickly.
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Goodness Impression Lost Quick
I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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Desire Fire Myself Paint
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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Desire Fate Herself Intimacy Law Live Nature
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
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
Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint
I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint
One day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.
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Advice Draw Learning Light Oneself Sea

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