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

Claude Monet

Perhaps it’s true that I’m very hard on myself, but that’s better than exhibiting mediocre work… too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.
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Better Hard Myself Public Satisfaction Trouble True
I never draw except with brush and paint.
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Artist Brush Draw Exception Myself Paint
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Myself Paint
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
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
What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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Color Myself Need
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
Light is the most important person in the picture.
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Important Light Person Photograph
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’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.
CLAUDE MONET

Absence Better Deal Determination Hard Work 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
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
My life has been nothing but a failure.
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Failure Life Myself
When I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.
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Feeling Forget Nature Oneself Paint
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
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Art Discussion Love Myself Pretend Understand
I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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Finish Myself Terrible

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

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