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" Among the seascapes, I am doing the regattas of Le Havre with many figures on the beach and the outer harbor covered with small sails. "
Small
Harbor
Beach
" Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. "
Color
Art
Obsession
" Etretat is becoming more and more amazing. Now is the real moment: the beach with all its fine boats; it is superb, and I am enraged not to be more skillful in rendering all this. I would need two hands and hundreds of canvases. "
Amazing
Hands
I Am
" Eventually, my eyes were opened, and I really understood nature. I learned to love at the same time. "
Same
Nature
Time
" Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love. "
Love
To Love
Everyone
" Finally here is a beautiful day, a superb sun like at Giverny. So I worked without stopping, for the tide at this moment is just as I need it for several motifs. This has bucked me up a bit. "
Moment
Tide
Me
" For a long time, I have hoped for better days, but alas, today it is necessary for me to lose all hope. My poor wife suffers more and more. I do not think it is possible to be any weaker. "
Hope
Today
Wife
" I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. "
Her
Flowers
Become
" I am installed in a fairylike place. I do not know where to poke my head; everything is superb, and I would like to do everything, so I use up and squander lots of color, for there are trials to be made. "
Head
Trials
Place
" I am working, but when one has ceased to do seascape, it is the devil afterward - very difficult; it changes at every instant, and here the weather varies several times in the same day. "
Same
Changes
Day
" I do have a dream, a painting, the baths of La Grenouillere for which I've done a few bad rough sketches, but it is a dream. Renoir, who has just spent two months here, also wants to do this painting. "
Two
Bad
Done
" I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions. "
Better
My Own
Alone
" I have never had a studio, and I do not understand shutting oneself up in a room. To draw, yes; to paint, no. "
Room
Up
Paint
" I pass my time in the open air on the beach when it is really heavy weather or when the boats go out fishing. "
Air
Beach
Fishing
" I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. "
Nature
Become
Painter
" It is extraordinary to see the sea; what a spectacle! She is so unfettered that one wonders whether it is possible that she again become calm. "
Become
Sea
Possible
" I was definitely born under an evil star. I have just been thrown out of the inn where I was staying, naked as a worm. "
Just
Born
Evil
" I wear myself out and struggle with the sun. And what a sun here! It would be necessary to paint here with gold and gemstones. It is wonderful. "
Here
Sun
Struggle
" I will do water - beautiful, blue water. "
Blue
Beautiful
Will
" My life has been nothing but a failure. "
Failure
Been
Nothing
" My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature. "
Like
Wish
Stay
" No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition. "
Before
Picture
Painting
" People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love. "
Love
People
Understand
" There, the grand lines of mountain and sea are admirable, and apart from the exotic vegetation that is here, Monte Carlo is certainly the most beautiful spot of the entire coast: the motifs there are more complete, more picturelike, and consequently easier to execute. "
Sea
Beautiful
Most Beautiful
" Try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, 'Here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow,' and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives you your own impression of the scene before you. "
Think
Pink
Color
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