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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.

Claude Monet

Everything changes, even stone.
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Change Life One Liner Stone
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
Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Flower Garden Happiness Learning Myself Youth
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
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
I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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Artist Bird Myself Paint Sing Way
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
I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
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Fire Myself Planning
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
To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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Forget Name Philosophy See Sight
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
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 didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
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Impression Myself Oneself Remember
Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.
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Greatness Impression Paint Question Simplicity Thinking
I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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Criticism Myself Opinion
Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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Enough Life Myself Paint Time

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