black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.

Claude Monet

For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
CLAUDE MONET

Appearance Change Existence Moments Myself Right
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 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 despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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Criticism Myself Opinion
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 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
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
It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
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Attention Catch Dare Easy Myself People
My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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Beautiful Garden Masterpiece Myself
It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
CLAUDE MONET

Afraid Bad Courage Paint Physical Tragedy World
I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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Future Myself Sleep
I’ve done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don’t want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that’s enough.
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Enough Myself Paint Painting Sufficient
It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
CLAUDE MONET

Finding Myself Observation Reflection Strength Way
I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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Fire Myself Planning
I can only draw what I see.
CLAUDE MONET

Draw Myself See

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