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

Claude Monet

When I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.
CLAUDE MONET

Feeling Forget Nature Oneself Paint
I’m working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still.
CLAUDE MONET

Absence Better Deal Determination Hard Work Myself Paint
I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It’s true that fretting never did any good.
CLAUDE MONET

Devotion Goodness Shame Suffering True
I didn’t become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
CLAUDE MONET

Impression Myself Oneself Remember
While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.
CLAUDE MONET

Add Finish Hard Work Oneself Paint Touch
One’s better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one’s own. In fact it’s a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
CLAUDE MONET

Alone Better Business Hard Impossible Oneself
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
CLAUDE MONET

Artist Composition Head Oneself Painting Photograph
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.
CLAUDE MONET

Choice Color Habit Myself
When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.
CLAUDE MONET

Darkness Death Myself Thinking
Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It’s wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.
CLAUDE MONET

Myself Paint Try Water Wonderful
What I need most of all is color, always, always.
CLAUDE MONET

Color Myself Need
I’ve said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.
CLAUDE MONET

Fascination Myself Product Repeat Success
Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
CLAUDE MONET

Flower Garden Happiness Learning Myself Youth
My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
CLAUDE MONET

Alone Art Better Impression Myself Work
I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
CLAUDE MONET

Finish Myself Terrible
Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.
CLAUDE MONET

Appearance Beautiful Mysterious Place Regular

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