"These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession."
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"I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."
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"Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers."
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"I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint."
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"When I work I forget all the rest."
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"I haven't yet managed to capture the colour of this landscape; there are moments when I'm appalled at the colours I'm having to use, I'm afraid what I'm doing is just dreadful and yet I really am understating it; the light is simply terrifying."
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"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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"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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"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."
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"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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"I am pleased with the exhibition... everything on display was sold for a good price to decent people. It has been a long time since I believed that you could educate public taste."
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"For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject."
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"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."
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"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."
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"the more I live, the more I regret how little i know"
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"I can only draw what I see."
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"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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"If only the weather would improve, there'd be hope of some work, but every day brings rain."
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"Apart from painting and gardening, I'm not good at anything."
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"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."
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