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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

Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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Children Myself Rule
What I need most of all is color, always, always.
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Color Myself Need
I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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Desire Fire Myself Paint
My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
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Eyes Learning Myself Nature Open Time Understand
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
All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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Enchanting Myself Reveal
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
The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.
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Direct Effect Impression Nature Paint
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
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
My life has been nothing but a failure.
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Failure Life Myself
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
I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint
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 want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found – the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.
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Beautiful Bridge Home Impossible Myself Paint
My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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Alone Art Better Impression Myself Work

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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