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I’ve only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.

Claude Monet

Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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Myself People Slow Speed Thinking
The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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Achievement Inspirational Myself Nature Rich Source
Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I’m exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I’ve set out to do.
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End Evening Forget Myself Responsibility Work
I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It’s true that fretting never did any good.
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Devotion Goodness Shame Suffering True
The effect of sincerity is to give one’s work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.
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Character Convey Effect Himself Impression Sincere
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
I still don’t know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
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Future Myself Sleep
Pictures aren’t made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red…But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.
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Appearance Chocolate Doctrine Official Photograph
Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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Flower Interest Myself Paint World
Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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Children Myself Rule
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
The real subject of every painting is light.
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Light Painting Reality Subject
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
What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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Color Myself Need
My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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Alone Art Better Impression Myself Work
Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.
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Greatness Impression Paint Question Simplicity Thinking

I’ve only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.

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