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I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.

Claude Monet

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
My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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Beautiful Garden Masterpiece Myself
I’ve done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don’t want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that’s enough.
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Enough Myself Paint Painting Sufficient
When I work I forget all the rest.
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Forget Myself Paint Understand Work
I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
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Deep Depression Disgust Paint Tortue
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Myself Paint
I can only draw what I see.
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Draw Myself See
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
Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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Greatness Myself Thankful
For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
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Alive Important Myself Subject
The real subject of every painting is light.
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Light Painting Reality Subject
Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
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Beautiful Day Desire Discover Head Myself
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
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
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
I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
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Advice Afraid Artist Myself Paint Young

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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