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I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.

Claude Monet

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
The real subject of every painting is light.
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Light Painting Reality Subject
I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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Artist Bird Myself Paint Sing Way
I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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Finish Myself Terrible
Light is the most important person in the picture.
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Important Light Person Photograph
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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Joy Obsession Torment
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
To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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Forget Name Philosophy See Sight
These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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Obsession Reflection Water
Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It’s wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.
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Myself Paint Try Water Wonderful
I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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Fire Myself Planning
While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.
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Add Finish Hard Work Oneself Paint Touch
It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.
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Growth Happiness Myself Paint Time Understand Water
If only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
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Hope Improvement Rain Work
Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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Discover Listening Myself
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’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.

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