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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.

Claude Monet

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
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
If only the weather would improve, there’d be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
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Hope Improvement Rain Work
Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
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Color Myself Pursue Sleep Worry
To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
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Forget Name Philosophy See Sight
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
Light is the most important person in the picture.
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Important Light Person Photograph
Thanks to my work everything’s going well; it’s a great consolation.
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Greatness Myself Thankful
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
When I work I forget all the rest.
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Forget Myself Paint Understand Work
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 am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
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Believe Change End Impossible Slave Weather Work
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
I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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Artist Bird Myself Paint Sing Way
It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
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Attention Catch Dare Easy Myself People

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