black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.

Claude Monet

No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.
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Anxiety Myself Painting Satisfaction Trouble
If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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Appearance Myself Painting World
Light is the most important person in the picture.
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Important Light Person Photograph
The real subject of every painting is light.
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Light Painting Reality Subject
One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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Myself See Sight 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
I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
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Education Home Myself Work
What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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Color Myself Need
I’m knocked out, I’ve never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I’m quite stupid with it and long only for bed; but I am happy.
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Bed Feeling Happiness Mental Myself
I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.
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Existence Experience Nature Paint Rule Success
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
Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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Myself People Slow Speed Thinking
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
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Enough Myself Paint Painting Sufficient
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
I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
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Brain Group Ideas Myself Wait

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