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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.

Claude Monet

One can do something if one can see and understand it.
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Myself See Sight Understand
Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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Color Myself Pursue Sleep Worry
My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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Beautiful Garden Masterpiece Myself
When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
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Darkness Death Myself Thinking
My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Heart Myself
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
I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint
Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
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Catch Nature Order
It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
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Finding Myself Observation Reflection Strength Way
I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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Artist Bird Myself Paint Sing Way
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
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
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
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’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
I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
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Despair God Mistake Myself Sensation

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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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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