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It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.

Claude Monet

My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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Alone Art Better Impression Myself 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
My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Heart Myself
I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint
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
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
Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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Art Force Nature Sensitive Stay Technique
Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint
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
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
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’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
Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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Children Myself Rule
The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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Achievement Inspirational Myself Nature Rich Source
I can only draw what I see.
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Draw Myself See
I must have flowers, always, and always.
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Flower Myself
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
Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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Enough Life Myself Paint Time
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
I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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Fire Myself Planning
I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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Desire Fire Myself Paint
Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.
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Art Deal Depression Interest Love Market Modesty Myself Price Value
The real subject of every painting is light.
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Light Painting Reality Subject
To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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Forget Name Philosophy See Sight
I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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Deep Depression Disgust Paint Tortue
A good impression is lost so quickly.
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Goodness Impression Lost Quick
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

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