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For almost two months now I've been struggling away with no result.
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I can no longer work outside because of the intensity of the light.
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I didn't become one... As long as I can remember I've always been one.
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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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Ninety per cent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in... Ruskin's Elements.
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Zaandam is particularly remarkable and there is enough here to paint for a life-time.
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Once settled, I hope to produce masterpieces, because I like the countryside very much.
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It's quite beyond my powers at my age, and yet I want to succeed in expressing what I feel.
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.. but what a pity that I did not come here [Venice] when I was younger and more adventurous.
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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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I have not been able to see a bit of sea or any water at all; everything is frozen and covered with snow.
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The sea is superb, but the cliffs don't match up to those at Fecamp. Here I'll be certain to do more boats.
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It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
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One day I am satisfied, the next day I find it all bad; still I hope that some day I will find some of them good.
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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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I'm half an hour late, I'll come back tomorrow. [because the sun went that day too far already, in Monet's opinion]
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Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of blue and pink: it's enchanting, it's delicious.
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By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to me.
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I am working as hard as I possibly can, and do not even dream of doing anything except the cathedral. It is an immense task.
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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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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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As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.
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I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
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Born:
November 14, 1840
Died:
December 5, 1926
(aged 86)
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