black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.

Claude Monet

Pictures aren’t made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red…But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.
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Appearance Chocolate Doctrine Official Photograph
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.
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Fascination Myself Product Repeat Success
I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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Encouragement Hard Work Myself Period Strength
The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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Atmosphere Beautiful Change Light Time
Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.
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Enough Life Myself Paint Time
Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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Greatness Myself Thankful
I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found – the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.
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Beautiful Bridge Home Impossible Myself Paint
One day Boudin said to me, ‘Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.’ I took his advice.
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Advice Draw Learning Light Oneself Sea
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
I can only draw what I see.
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Draw Myself See
I never draw except with brush and paint.
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Artist Brush Draw Exception Myself Paint
All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
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Enchanting Myself Reveal
The real subject of every painting is light.
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Light Painting Reality Subject
I haven’t many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.
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Achievement Devotion Myself Paint Possible Satisfaction Time
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’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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Feeling Impossible Myself Paint Power Seek

Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.

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