black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Lots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal and that I’m out of my mind, but that’s just too bad.

Claude Monet

Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
CLAUDE MONET

Color Myself Pursue Sleep Worry
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
To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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Forget Name Philosophy See Sight
All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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Enchanting Myself Reveal
Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
CLAUDE MONET

Enough Life Myself Paint Time
Pictures aren’t made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red…But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.
CLAUDE MONET

Appearance Chocolate Doctrine Official Photograph
It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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Action Better Myself Reputation
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’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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Desire Fire Myself Paint
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
When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
CLAUDE MONET

Darkness Death Myself Thinking
I haven’t many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.
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Achievement Devotion Myself Paint Possible Satisfaction Time
A good impression is lost so quickly.
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Goodness Impression Lost Quick
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Fascination Myself Product Repeat Success
One day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.
CLAUDE MONET

Advice Draw Learning Light Oneself Sea
One’s better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one’s own. In fact it’s a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
CLAUDE MONET

Alone Better Business Hard Impossible Oneself

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