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I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.

Claude Monet

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
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
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
One day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.
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Advice Draw Learning Light Oneself Sea
If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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Appearance Myself Painting World
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’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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Feeling Impossible Myself Paint Power Seek
I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.
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Appreciation Goodness Happiness Myself Praise Time
Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
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Catch Nature Order
My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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Beautiful Garden Masterpiece Myself
My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Heart Myself
I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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Finish Myself Terrible
It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
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Finding Myself Observation Reflection Strength Way
The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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Achievement Inspirational Myself Nature Rich Source
When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
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Darkness Death Myself Thinking
These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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Obsession Reflection Water

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