black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Claude Monet

I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
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Believe Change End Impossible Slave Weather Work
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
Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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Enough Life Myself Paint Time
My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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Beautiful Garden Masterpiece Myself
If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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Appearance Myself Painting World
I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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Artist Bird Myself Paint Sing Way
What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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Color Myself Need
Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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Discover Listening Myself
I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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Feeling Impossible Myself Paint Power Seek
I’ve been working so hard that I’m exhausted… I feel I won’t be able to do without a few weeks’ rest, so I’m going off to see the sea.
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Exhaustion Hard Work Myself Sea See
I can only draw what I see.
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Draw Myself See
A good impression is lost so quickly.
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Goodness Impression Lost Quick
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
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Artist Composition Head Oneself Painting Photograph
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 sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It’s true that fretting never did any good.
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Devotion Goodness Shame Suffering True
I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint
I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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Finish Myself Terrible
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
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
Everything changes, even stone.
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Change Life One Liner Stone
Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It’s wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.
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Myself Paint Try Water Wonderful
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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Joy Obsession Torment
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Myself Paint
I must have flowers, always, and always.
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Flower Myself
Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.
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Devil Live Myself Room Sleep Time
To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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Forget Name Philosophy See Sight
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

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

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