"I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture."
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"A good impression is lost so quickly."
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"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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"The real subject of every painting is light."
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"My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions."
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"Nature won't be summoned to order and won't be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught."
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"You'll understand, I'm sure that I'm chasing the merest sliver of color. It's my own fault. I want to grasp the intangible. It's terrible how the light runs out. Color, any color, lasts a second, sometimes 3 or 4 minutes at most."
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"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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"Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment."
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"Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face."
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"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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"I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure."
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"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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"When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can't think any more."
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"I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain."
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"Lots of people will protest that it's quite unreal and that I'm out of my mind, but that's just too bad"
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"One can do something if one can see and understand it."
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"I'm knocked out, I've never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I'm quite stupid with it and long only for bed; but I am happy."
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"Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep."
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"Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime."
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