"I think only of my painting, and if I were to drop it, I think I'd go crazy."
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"I would love to do orange and lemon trees silhouetted against the blue sea, but I cannot find them the way I want them."
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"I can no longer work outside because of the intensity of the light."
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"I intend to do a large painting of the cliff at Etretat, although it is terribly bold of me to do so after Courbet has painted it so admirably, but I will try to do it in a different way."
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"To have gone to all this trouble to get to this is just too stupid! Outside there's brilliant sunshine but I don't feel up to looking at it."
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"The creditors are proving impossible to deal with and short of a sudden appearance on the scene of wealthy art patrons, we are going to be turned out of this dear little house where I led a simple life and was able to work so well. I do not know what will become of us."
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"Canvases between 8 centimetres and 1 metre are priced around 25,000 francs. In the past I used to sell them from between 50 to 100 francs at the most. I have to say... that I feel somewhat embarrassed at this admission."
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"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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"Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I'm exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I've set out to do."
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"It seems to me that when I see nature I see it ready-made, completely written - but then, try to do it!"
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"I do have a dream, a tableau of the bathing place of La Grenouillère, for which I've done some bad pochades (sketches), but it is a dream. Renoir, who have just spent a couple of months here, also wants to paint this subject."
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"I'm not lacking for enthusiasm as you can see, given that I have something like 65 canvases covered with paint and I'll be needing more since the place is quite out of the ordinary; so I'm going to order some more canvases."
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"I'm very happy, very delighted. I'm setting to like a fighting cockerel, for I'm surrounded here by all that I love."
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"You might perhaps like to see the few canvases I was able to save from the bailiffs and the rest, since I thought you might be so good as to help me a little, as I am in quite a desperate state, and the worst is that I can no longer even work."
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"My rejection at the Salon brought an end to my hesitation [to settle in Paris] since after this failure I can no longer claim to cope... alas, that fatal rejection has virtually taken the bread out of my mouth."
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"No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others."
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"It's the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one's done."
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"Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly."
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"Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value."
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"The Thames was all gold. God it was beautiful, so fine that I began working a frenzy, following the sun and its reflections on the water."
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