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

Claude Monet

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
The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all’s said and done, a matter of habit.
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Choice Color Habit Myself
All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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Brush Myself See Sight Universe
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
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
The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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Achievement Inspirational Myself Nature Rich Source
Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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Myself People Slow Speed Thinking
If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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Appearance Myself Painting World
These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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Obsession Reflection Water
What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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Color Myself Need
Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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Discover Listening Myself
I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
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Build Earth Happiness Kind Myself Thinking
I’ve been working so hard that I’m exhausted… I feel I won’t be able to do without a few weeks’ rest, so I’m going off to see the sea.
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Exhaustion Hard Work Myself Sea See
Light is the most important person in the picture.
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Important Light Person Photograph
Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.
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Art Deal Depression Interest Love Market Modesty Myself Price Value
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
When I work I forget all the rest.
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Forget Myself Paint Understand Work
One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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Myself See Sight Understand
I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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Fire Myself Planning
One’s better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one’s own. In fact it’s a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
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Alone Better Business Hard Impossible Oneself
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 must have flowers, always, and always.
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Flower Myself
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Myself Paint
It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
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Action Better Myself Reputation
I’m working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still.
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Absence Better Deal Determination Hard Work Myself Paint
For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
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Appearance Change Existence Moments Myself Right

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

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