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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

Light is the most important person in the picture.
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Important Light Person Photograph
I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
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Advice Afraid Artist Myself Paint Young
My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
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Desire Fate Herself Intimacy Law Live Nature
As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.
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Criticism Myself Period Success Word
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
I never draw except with brush and paint.
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Artist Brush Draw Exception Myself Paint
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
My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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Beautiful Garden Masterpiece Myself
It’s enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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Ambience Atmosphere Crazy Drive Enough
I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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Criticism Myself Opinion
I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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Impression Myself Oneself Remember
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
Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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Discover Listening Myself
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
Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
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Beautiful Day Desire Discover Head 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

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