Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly. - Claude Monet

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I'm really lucky to have the kind of people I've got around me. I've got such a great group of predominantly young people, but so diverse, and they bring different perspectives to the table. They will tell me exactly what's on their mind.

Claude Monet

Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.

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My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.

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I know that to paint the sea really well, you need to look at it every hour of every day in the same place so that you can understand its way in that particular spot; and that is why I am working on the same motifs over and over again, four or six times even.

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I had so much fire in me and so many plans.

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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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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.

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