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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

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
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
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
Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.
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Appearance Beautiful Mysterious Place Regular
I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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Deep Depression Disgust Paint Tortue
Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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Greatness Myself Thankful
All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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Enchanting Myself Reveal
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
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Art Discussion Love Myself Pretend Understand
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Myself Paint
These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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Obsession Reflection Water
Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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Myself People Slow Speed Thinking
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
I must have flowers, always, and always.
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Flower Myself
Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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Enough Life Myself Paint Time
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’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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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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