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One can do something if one can see and understand it.

Claude Monet

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
Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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Discover Listening Myself
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
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
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
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 can only draw what I see.
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Draw Myself See
I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Flower Forever Garden Heart Love Myself Need Time Work
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 despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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Criticism Myself Opinion
Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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Enough Life Myself Paint Time
One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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Myself See Sight Understand
Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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Children Myself Rule
It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
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Finding Myself Observation Reflection Strength Way
My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Heart Myself
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Myself Nature Paint

One can do something if one can see and understand it.

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