black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.

Claude Monet

The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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Atmosphere Beautiful Change Light Time
Perhaps it’s true that I’m very hard on myself, but that’s better than exhibiting mediocre work… too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.
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Better Hard Myself Public Satisfaction Trouble True
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
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Joy Obsession Torment
All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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Enchanting Myself Reveal
I can only draw what I see.
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Draw Myself See
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.
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Appearance Beautiful Mysterious Place Regular
I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.
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Miracle Myself Performance Wasted Time
Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it’s enchanting, it’s delicious, and I hope it will please you.
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Bold Delicious Enchanting Feeling Hope Nature Yourself
I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
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Finish Myself Terrible
My heart is forever in Giverny.
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Heart Myself
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
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Art Discussion Love Myself Pretend Understand
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
Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
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Art Force Nature Sensitive Stay Technique
If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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Appearance Myself Painting World
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

When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can’t think any more.

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