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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.

Claude Monet

No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.
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Anxiety Myself Painting Satisfaction Trouble
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
A good impression is lost so quickly.
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Goodness Impression Lost Quick
Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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Myself People Slow Speed Thinking
I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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Miracle Myself Performance Wasted Time
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
Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
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Beautiful Day Desire Discover Head Myself
I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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Desire Fire Myself Paint
All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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Brush Myself See Sight Universe
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
These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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Obsession Reflection Water
The real subject of every painting is light.
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Light Painting Reality Subject
Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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Flower Interest Myself Paint World
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
The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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Live Myself Regret
I’ve done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don’t want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that’s enough.
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Enough Myself Paint Painting Sufficient
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
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
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
I’m working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still.
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Absence Better Deal Determination Hard Work 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
Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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Discover Listening Myself
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
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
Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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Color Myself Pursue Sleep Worry
Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint

Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.

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