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I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.

Claude Monet

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
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Beautiful Garden Masterpiece Myself
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
These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
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Obsession Reflection Water
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
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
Apart from painting and gardening, I’m not good at anything.
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Garden Goodness Myself Paint
I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
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Brain Group Ideas Myself Wait
As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.
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Criticism Myself Period Success Word
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Myself 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
Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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Enough Life Myself Paint Time
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
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
All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
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Brush Myself See Sight Universe

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